parry

He’s hardly able to parry the upbraiding meted out by Mr. Giamatti’s Jean, fastidiously dressed and radiating pompous self-satisfaction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

But it’s his voice that exerts the most hypnotic force, moving from defensive parry to inner rumble that takes the entire audience at the James Earl Jones Theatre into his confidence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

The German chancellor is trying to set a new tone with Beijing to parry pressure from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026

Moving to his left, Smith got both hands to the ball, only to parry in the direction of the slips, who could not grab the rebound.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

Caught off-guard, he only had time to deflect, his parry lost in his size.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Gavin Bazunu parries, but only straight to Anass Zaroury who buries the rebound first-time for the opener.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024

There were also plenty of parries between the candidates.

From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2023

The two players traded taunts and parries, their lines racing around each other like a pair of squirrels.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022

This crisis has unfolded as a complex mosaic of moves and counter-moves, feints and bluffs, lunges and parries of counterintelligence and disinformation.

From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2022

The second fencer can’t attack until he parries.

From "Black Brother, Black Brother" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

He should have saved King's equaliser at his near post, while his initial save for Fulham's second was parried into a dangerous area, allowing Garcia to score.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Bobby Thomas: A tough night for the Coventry centre-back, but he did react well to clear when Rushworth parried a shot in the second half.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

He parried worries about this World Cup with a groovy encouragement:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The sequence started with Pedro Porro sending a cross into the box for Dani Olmo, whose shot was parried away by Courtois.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

Ser Jorah parried as best he could, but the slashes came so fast that it seemed to Dany that Qotho had four aiakhs and as many arms.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Unlike commercial antibiotics, phages evolve alongside their bacterial hosts, dodging and parrying the bacterial response so that for every pathogen, there’s likely a bacteriophage, somewhere, that eats it.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024

Upon entering a cavernous room, its barely lit cobblestones reflecting a sickly green, you are charged by a towering beast that can be overcome only through a punishing sequence of precise dodges and parrying.

From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2024

She was very witty and had razor-sharp quips, parrying every attempt at connection with playful defiance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

Jim Ludes, a former national defense analyst who now leads the Pell Center for International Affairs and Public Policy at Salve Regina University, said political parrying is inevitable.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2023

We had been parrying the enemy’s attacks for too long.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela