defiers

plural of defier

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for defiers
Noun
  • Season 42 continues on Friday with Spencer Janes returning as champion to face two new challengers.
    USA TODAY Staff, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Democrats’ restless post-Biden mood is impacting race after race, and incumbents who’ve been in office since before their challengers were born look unusually vulnerable.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The rebels had a scant chance of recognizing him.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • During his training period, he and his friends were captured by armed Kurdish rebels and held for about 80 days.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The best challenger brands think like cultural insurgents.
    Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Islamist insurgents have since May attacked Malian and foreign-owned businesses, including cement factories, sugar factories, and mines.
    Preeti Jha, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • At the time, the French people reporting on the ground and from abroad held Dessalines and other Haitian revolutionaries to a different standard.
    Julia Gaffield, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Mexican actor plays revolutionaries in both season 2 of Star Wars series Andor and new movie musical, Kiss of the Spider Woman.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But, first, one of the January 6th insurrectionists, emboldened by his pardon from the President, is now campaigning for reparations.
    Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Fragoso asked of the insurrectionists.
    EW.com, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
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“Defiers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defiers. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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