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Recent Examples of parry
The Rocket Launcher has the ability to regain health when players parry an attack and enter the splash damage zone.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parry
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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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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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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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Giving up athletics had an impact on her body and changes were required to avoid injury.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
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Each week spent on development and every disaster avoided adds to the company’s financial, reputational and customer support success.—
Sai Sandeep Ogety,
Forbes.com,
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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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.—
Alexander Tin,
CBS News,
1 July 2025
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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.—
Oliver Brandt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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The Argentine forward couldn’t believe his luck when Jhon Arias’ deflected cross dropped to him in the six-yard box.—
Joseph O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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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.—
Benjamin Royer,
Los Angeles Times,
29 June 2025
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“Parry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parry. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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