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Recent Examples of outflank
Lee is outflanking Taylor in vote transfers from Webb and Tyron Jordan, the respective fifth- and third-place candidates.
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
For Iran, Hezbollah was supposed to be the cornerstone of its strategy to outflank superior adversaries, such as Israel, with armed proxies.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024
Russia is providing ever more political support to Haftar and could easily outflank Western policymakers by recognizing him and his allies in the House of Representatives as Libya’s legitimate government.
—Jason Pack, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2017
But days earlier, before flying into Washington, Mr. Altman was on the phone with Mr. Trump, preparing an announcement that would outflank Mr. Musk and put Mr. Altman’s company at the center of the new administration’s agenda for artificial intelligence.
—Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
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Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2025
For Iran, Hezbollah was supposed to be the cornerstone of its strategy to outflank superior adversaries, such as Israel, with armed proxies.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024
Russia is providing ever more political support to Haftar and could easily outflank Western policymakers by recognizing him and his allies in the House of Representatives as Libya’s legitimate government.
—Jason Pack, Foreign Affairs, 10 Jan. 2017
But days earlier, before flying into Washington, Mr. Altman was on the phone with Mr. Trump, preparing an announcement that would outflank Mr. Musk and put Mr. Altman’s company at the center of the new administration’s agenda for artificial intelligence.
—Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outflank
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Last year, the Russians began including decoy drones with their Shahed drones to increase the likelihood of evading Ukrainian defenses.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Cochran drove in a manner that indicated to Taylor that the sheriff was trying to evade him, Welch said.—
Joe Marusak,
Charlotte Observer,
28 June 2025
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Without an aisle, the box occupants must seat themselves in order from front to back to avoid climbing over one another.—
Judith Martin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 June 2025
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Don’t say Discovery The language in the Senate bill avoids any mention of the Smithsonian, Space Center Houston, Discovery, or even the space shuttle.—
Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
30 June 2025
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This deliberately allusive narrative style enables the author to elude the topic of Nazism—or at least to hint at it in a covert way, thus making the novel acceptable to a wide German audience at the time of its publication in 1968.—
Ombline Damy,
JSTOR Daily,
26 June 2025
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The sun is hardly novel subject matter, but Zea eludes cliché through abstraction.—
Ana Karina Zatarain,
New Yorker,
21 June 2025
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Police on Friday captured one of the New Orleans parish inmates who escaped six weeks ago in a jailbreak Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry called the worst in recent state history.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 June 2025
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In such places, summer becomes a never-ending fantasy, a pleasure dome that characters cannot escape.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
26 June 2025
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Gen Zers and millennials have started to shun dating apps across the board.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
26 June 2025
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The White House has shunned any suggestion Trump has lost faith in any member of his national security team — remarks that come amid reporting that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has also not played a key role in mapping out a response.—
Rebecca Beitsch,
The Hill,
21 June 2025
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The Oilers could sign Patrick Kane as a free agent, but may eschew that kind of move in favour of a more rambunctious winger.—
Allan Mitchell,
New York Times,
20 June 2025
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The brand, whose DNA is rooted in Italian tailoring traditions, is eschewing younger looks, offering a new take on classicism imbued with urban touches.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
20 June 2025
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And beside them, Milford, Weymouth and St. John’s of Shrewsbury also shook off their sub-20 seeding to advance at least once in an all-time showing of parity.—
Tom Mulherin,
Boston Herald,
21 June 2025
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The tragedy shook the small Ohio town — and stunned viewers who remembered the Stockdale family's 2008 appearance on ABC's Wife Swap.—
Christina Coulter,
People.com,
21 June 2025
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The case highlighted how independent voices can circumvent the gatekeeping position of corporate media and rally the public.—
Tom Blakely,
Boston Herald,
27 June 2025
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There’s no surefire way to keep AI companies from scraping news websites; even the Robots Exclusion Protocol, the standard opt-out method available to news publishers, is easily circumvented.—
Alex Reisner,
The Atlantic,
25 June 2025
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“Outflank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outflank. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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