parrying

verb

present participle of parry
as in evading

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for parrying
  1. evading
  2. avoiding
  3. escaping
  4. eluding
  5. dodging
  6. ducking
  7. deflecting
  8. sidestepping
Verb
  • In the video, the riders can be seen speeding, popping wheelies, driving on sidewalks and evading police.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Aug. 2026
  • He also was booked on four outstanding warrants related to evading law enforcement, according to police.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of evading
Verb
  • The state health department says that avoiding tick bites is the best way to avoid tularemia.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • An armed off-duty Idaho state trooper and a private citizen confronted the shooter, likely driving him from the scene and avoiding further casualties, according to Twin Falls Police Chief Matthew Hicks.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of avoiding
Verb
  • NurPhoto via Getty Images Anthropic has quietly joined the frontier labs designing their own chips, a shift driven less by escaping Nvidia than by the arithmetic of serving billions of tokens a day.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The alcohol-burning products were associated with 31 reports of flame jettings and flames escaping from the concrete container, resulting in 19 burn injuries.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of escaping
Verb
  • Young was running around the backfield, eluding pass rushers, keeping his eyes downfield.
    — Alex Zietlow July 28, Charlotte Observer, 28 July 2026
  • Flies eluding the glue traps and the manager’s fancy fly swatter gathered on the cutting board (three), on a clean fying pan (one), on the trash can (three), and on the mop head and a wall (six).
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
Definition of eluding
Verb
  • Throughout the day, teenagers would dash onto the beach, dodging officers before diving back into the water.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 July 2026
  • Discovered in 2004 while traveling on an alarming potential collision course with our planet, the near-Earth asteroid Apophis is now better known as the best example yet of our world dodging a cosmic bullet.
    — Andrew Jones, Scientific American, 30 July 2026
Definition of dodging
Verb
  • Grayson threatened to shoot her and Massey apologized before ducking down behind a counter and covering her face with what appeared to be a red oven mitt, the video shows.
    — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 31 July 2026
  • Gardner described various efforts by the Coliseum body — formally called the Joint Powers Authority — to discuss the Roots’ outstanding debt, accusing team officials of ducking those communications.
    — Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 31 July 2026
Definition of ducking
Verb
  • The architects used building materials like bricks made of crushed sand and ash residue that have been found to be effective insulators, deflecting heat.
    — Kamala Thiagarajan, NPR, 1 Aug. 2026
  • This gap, if unaddressed, sabotages growth by deflecting feedback, creating imbalanced traits, and causing behavioral drift under pressure, negatively impacting teams.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Definition of deflecting
Verb
  • The Space Development Agency was established in 2019 to help speed up the deployment of US military space systems by sidestepping the Pentagon’s traditional sluggish bureaucracy.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026
  • PortaSplit’s outdoor unit clips onto a window bracket, needs no drilling, and is classified as furniture rather than a fixture — sidestepping facade-modification bans in cities like Paris.
    — Anniek Bao,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 2 July 2026
Definition of sidestepping
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