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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  1. oppositions
  2. objections
  3. resistances
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
Definition of oppositions
Noun
  • Two of the three objections against Macías and Sigcho-Lopez were filed by people who had circulated primary petitions for Patty García.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The City Council voted it down, and the mayor's opponents passed an alternate budget plan over his objections.
    — Chris Tye, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of objections
Noun
  • 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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“Defiances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defiances. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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