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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
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
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.
—
Sarah Jones,
New Republic,
27 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for defier
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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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Clemson resister Dabo Swinney has driven his program into the ground.
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Her victory over leftist challenger Roberto Sánchez marks her fourth presidential bid and makes her Peru’s first female president-elect.
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Republican Mark Baisley didn't face a challenger for the GOP nomination and will face Hickelooper in the November general election.
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Gillespie also has a reputation for melding music to movies, as seen in Cruella, his 2021 movie that cast Disney villainess Cruella de Vil as a punk rock rebel in London’s fashion scene.
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The winner is the daughter of the late Alberto Fujimori, the former president whose government in the 1990s defeated the Shining Path extremist rebel group but also took an authoritarian turn.
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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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Or an historian of Polynesian culture giving a lecture about tattooing, or the time Captain Bligh stopped on the atoll to look for the mutineer Fletcher Christian.
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Gray is endorsed by Kansas City’s branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, and represents the insurgent left flank of the Democratic Party in the race.
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Out went what was left of country-club Republicanism; in came the Fifth Avenue insurgent and his MAGA hordes.
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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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“Defier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defier. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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