"defy" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.
- But getting from that point to the emergence of large structures in the universe has defied scientific understanding.
- Chaos theory tells us that a big complicated system like that defies understanding.
- The behavior of this big complicated system always defied understanding.
- And their negroes, who had been told nothing, knew everything too, by that black grapevine telegraph system which defies white understanding.
- It was invisible, a force beyond nature's laws, an unknown that defied understanding.
- The catastrophe in eastern Congo defies superficial understanding and, for most of us, sustained concern.
- If his literature defies easy understanding, so too does his life.
- These issues are not so technical that they defy public understanding.
- Even if their crimes defy understanding, we need to understand.
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