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Recent Examples of defier
Evan Turk’s provocative and emotive illustrations, portraits within this portrait, bring swirling movement and feeling to the story of this defier and definer of the times.
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BostonGlobe.com,
22 Apr. 2021
Everybody enjoys being thought of as a scofflaw, or a hell-raiser, or defier of authority, especially if such activity happened in the past.
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Karen Martin,
Arkansas Online,
29 Nov. 2020
Critics see a reckless defier of laws and norms who must be held to account.
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Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
17 Nov. 2019
Belichick is the league’s most prominent convention-defier; Schwartz is a veteran myth-buster.
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Michael Rosenberg,
SI.com,
2 Feb. 2018
The Ordinary's Granactive Retinoid* 2% Emulsion ($9.80) is a retinoid active, part of the family of age-defiers that helps reduce wrinkles.
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Macaela MacKenzie,
Allure,
26 Jan. 2018
Roy Moore, defier of Supreme Courts, thumper of Bibles, hater of gays and everyone else who is not exactly like Roy Moore, is the Republican nominee for Senate in Alabama.
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Sarah Jones,
New Republic,
27 Sep. 2017
BostonGlobe.com,
22 Apr. 2021
Everybody enjoys being thought of as a scofflaw, or a hell-raiser, or defier of authority, especially if such activity happened in the past.
—
Karen Martin,
Arkansas Online,
29 Nov. 2020
Critics see a reckless defier of laws and norms who must be held to account.
—
Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
17 Nov. 2019
Belichick is the league’s most prominent convention-defier; Schwartz is a veteran myth-buster.
—
Michael Rosenberg,
SI.com,
2 Feb. 2018
The Ordinary's Granactive Retinoid* 2% Emulsion ($9.80) is a retinoid active, part of the family of age-defiers that helps reduce wrinkles.
—
Macaela MacKenzie,
Allure,
26 Jan. 2018
Roy Moore, defier of Supreme Courts, thumper of Bibles, hater of gays and everyone else who is not exactly like Roy Moore, is the Republican nominee for Senate in Alabama.
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Sarah Jones,
New Republic,
27 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for defier
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Clemson resister Dabo Swinney has driven his program into the ground.
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In November 1971, Berkeley, California, became the first sanctuary city in the country when 12 local churches inspired the City Council to pass a resolution offering sanctuary to draft resisters.
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In his most recent outing, Kape knocked out former UFC flyweight title challenger Brandon Royval in December.
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The mayor has used his political capital instead to back challengers who, by definition, can deliver less federal funding.
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Mahamat Idriss Déby, 42, seized power in Chad after his father, Idriss Déby, was killed fighting rebels in 2021, before winning elections in 2024.
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The group has been responsible for current President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s security and for fighting rebel groups.
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The uniform of the conformist — sports shirt, cardigan, tennis shoes — is as easily recognized as that of the recusant — dirty white T, sideburns, two days’ growth of beard.
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Pitcairn is well-known as the island on which Fletcher Christian and other British mutineers from the HMS Bounty took refuge after the 1789 events that toppled Capt.
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Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers.
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But what local powers must be surrendered to the insurgent American collectivity?
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The province has been the center of a long-running separatist insurgency, with insurgents demanding independence or greater control over local resources.
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Yesterday, in an effort to galvanize democratic forces, oppositionists announced the foundation of the Strategic Council of Republicans Inside Iran.
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Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is a Sunni Islamist umbrella group of oppositionist forces with ideological and organizational roots in al-Qaeda.
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The collection drew inspiration from two seemingly distant sources: a still-life painting of a shirt collar by Joe Brainard, the prolific 1960s New York writer and artist, and a short story by Yu Dafu, the early 20th-century Chinese author and revolutionist.
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In a country shackled and scarred by race, religion, gender, and class, much of that rationalized and reified by mainline American churches, the Disciples were genial revolutionists offering inclusion, education, and empowerment for those at the margins.
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“Defier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defier. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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