Synonyms for defying
de·fy·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "defying":

   challenging, defiant, defy, braving

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1. Falwell Jr.:

   It is a tremendous honor and privilege for any university to host a sitting US President, and we are incredibly grateful to have President Trump be a part of this historic day, this May, Liberty students will have the honor of hearing from a man who has succeeded in business and in politics, defying conventional wisdom to become the 45th President of the United States.

2. Steve Vladeck:

   One of two things is true: Either this kind of blind, rigid, context-free, and common-sense-defying assessment of history is exactly what the Supreme Court intended in its landmark ruling last June in Bruen, or it isn’t.

3. Kitty Block:

   This week, while one part of the Japanese government is proudly facilitating international cooperation by hosting the G20 meeting, another is quietly extricating itself from the obligation for global collaboration on the protection and management of the world's whales, japan leaving the IWC and defying international law to pursue its commercial whaling ambitions is renegade, retrograde and myopic....

4. George Chapman:

   The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

5. Quentin Crisp:

   The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.