Young artists are often happy to defy expectations and turn music on its head.

The show goes out of its way not to defy expectations but to exceed them.

And yet the crowds have already defied expectations, including their own.

She could not have named the reasons for this; it defied expectation.

The economy has defied expectations all through 1994, proving to be surprisingly strong.

Until now, he had defied expectations at every turn.

In an interview yesterday, he explained how the storm defied expectations.

To be sure, the turnaround in the Turkish economy has defied expectations.

And the economy continues to be sluggish, defying expectations that growth would pick up in the second half of the year.

If Boris defied expectations and developed a serum, well then, the more power to him.