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Recent Examples of parryWith the score tied 0-0, Lorena leapt to her right to parry a spot kick by Angel City forward Alyssa Thompson in the 56th minute.—Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025 In one instance, Musashi parries one enemy without facing it, and parries another right after, chucking the foe into a nearby torch.—Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 11 June 2025 America’s dream of securing dominance in one of the world’s breadbaskets, home to vast resources and human capital at the expense of Europe and Russia, has been deftly parried.—Wesley Alexander Hill, Forbes.com, 7 May 2025 Every single enemy attack in the game can either be parried or dodged.—George Yang, Rolling Stone, 23 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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