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Recent Examples of parryThe Rocket Launcher has the ability to regain health when players parry an attack and enter the splash damage zone.—Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 21 May 2025 Hard mode requires players to master the timing of dodging and parrying as enemies deal greater damage.—George Yang, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025 Another example is unlocking the ability to parry after fighting enough creatures using melee weapons.—David Jagneaux, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025 Even before winter turned to spring, Martinez had shown an alarming weakness for parrying into danger.—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parry
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.
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CBS News,
CBS News,
27 June 2025
There is nothing inherently better about Rowling’s magic that would lead its users to escape the loss of a personal sense of accomplishment—or knowledge, skills, or tactility—and as the novels show, the threat of overuse looms as greatly over their existence as our own.
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.
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Ombline Damy,
JSTOR Daily,
26 June 2025
The sun is hardly novel subject matter, but Zea eludes cliché through abstraction.
Multiple federal health officials said planning has been ongoing for the next steps of the reorganization and merger, even as Kennedy has cited the court rulings as a reason to dodge questions about the restructuring on Capitol Hill.
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Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
1 July 2025
This game has faster, more aggressive combat that pushes the focus onto dodging rather than parrying, which should lead to some very different – and likely very difficult – combat.
The Argentine forward couldn’t believe his luck when Jhon Arias’ deflected cross dropped to him in the six-yard box.
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Joseph O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
In the sixth, down 2-1, Ward led off the bottom half with a double, on a ground ball deflected by a diving attempt by Nationals third baseman Brady House.
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