"defy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Longshot is an artificially created humanoid life-form, with the ability to defy probability.
- The sound of his laboring lungs echoed within the confines of the arctic lab, defying probability with every sharp intake of breath.
- Gladstone's luck defies probability and provides him with anything he desires, with hardly the need of effort.
- Does the number of Latin American leaders with cancer defy probability?
- All back-row forwards have to be brave, but Leslie's courage defies reason and probability alike: he reckons any ball on the ground is his to win.
- For one thing, four dairy farmers have died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in the past three years, a cluster that defies statistical probability.
- That's a fact pattern that simply defies probability.
- And since the info has proved to be accurate, the first option defies probability.
- The couple's meeting defied probability.
- "It defies probability that your vaunted familiarity with the Delta Quadrant should prove incomplete once more."
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