Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maneuver (around)
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Emmett holds the two men at gunpoint and instructs them to transport him to a specific location to evade capture.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 June 2026 -
Johnson evaded questions Friday afternoon from reporters who tried to talk to him about the Bears situation at an event at the Chicago Cultural Center honoring the city’s Puerto Rican community.—
Robert McCoppin,
Chicago Tribune,
5 June 2026
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By making the obvious choice of waiting until a new app is as good or better than the current app before killing the app’s predecessor, AcuRite may have dodged a bullet.—
Scharon Harding,
ArsTechnica,
11 June 2026
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Skenes, on the other hand, was dodging danger throughout his six innings.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
10 June 2026
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Josh Manson faked out Nic Dowd behind the Colorado net to free up space for the defenseman to hit Martin Necas with a tape-to-tape outlet pass beyond the red line.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
25 May 2026
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The plan is to fake out territorial wasps who will avoid an area where other wasps already reside.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
9 May 2026
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The official sidestepped a question about whether Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, has personally signed off on the current agreement.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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Now, researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have taken a very different approach to sidestep all of that – one 500 million years in the making.—
Omar Kardoudi
June 13,
New Atlas,
13 June 2026
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“Maneuver (around).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maneuver%20%28around%29. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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