Synonyms for defied
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1. List of paraphrases for "defied":

   challenged, braved, disobeyed

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1. Chris Taylor:

   House Democrats defied history on a record of creating jobs, keeping families safe, investing in America, defending women’s freedom and the integrity of our democracy, voters rejected MAGA extremism and now House Republicans are in a state of disarray. With a razor-thin majority, Kevin McCarthy is being forced to kneel to extremism in a GOP conference that wants to ban abortion, challenge elections, hawk conspiracy theories that make us all less safe and sow even more hate and division in America.

2. Bill Belichick:

   As much as anyone, Daquan Patten epitomized the unheralded, self-made player who defied enormous odds to not only earn a job in the NFL but to become a key player on multiple championship teams, i can speak for anyone who had the pleasure to be around Daquan Patten that Daquan Patten work ethic, positive energy and character were elite. My deepest condolences are with his family and loved ones.

3. Edmund S. Morgan:

   Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers ... it is a place where the world's hostility to curiosity can be defied.

4. Carsten Brzeski:

   Boom. German industrial orders just defied any concerns about a slowdown of the economy due to the Chinese slowdown or Greek turbulence, today's numbers show that the German economy could take the current positive momentum into the third quarter.

5. Margaret Wurth:

   Women and girls in Dominican Republic have always defied the abortion ban, but they have been forced to put their health and lives on the line to end pregnancies clandestinely.