DEFIANCES Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

defiances

noun

plural of defiance

as in oppositions

the inclination to resist the troubled youth seems to have an ingrained defiance to authority of any sort

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Noun

Mars delivers excitement during its oppositions every couple of years.

— Damian Peach, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026
There was a July 29 deadline for people to submit oppositions to the petitions to deny ABC’s license renewals, and there is an August 5 deadline for replies to the opposition filings.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2026

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Bessent's remarks came as Siluanov's first in-person appearance at the summit since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 drew objections from other European leaders.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
Recently, Capifali helped guide the Johnson administration through a tiff with aldermen who legalized video gambling terminals over the mayor’s objections.

— Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026

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Thornton’s latest work has the potential to reach more audiences precisely because of the Huckleberry Finn-like spirit of its Kid and Max saga, giving more folks the opportunity to learn about colonialist histories and indigenous resistances in the lands down under.

— Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2026
Instead, in most analog AI schemes, the weights are stored in one of several types of nonvolatile memory as a conductance value (the resistances above).

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025

Definition of resistances

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