parrying

Example Sentences

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He was parrying tough questions on a big stage for the first time, facing an audience who knew him only as the Angry L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Fifty minutes into her deposition, after parrying questions and defending herself against the court's doubts, Mamta's composure faltered for the first time.

From BBC • Aug. 13, 2025

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

He worked side by side with graduate students in a windowless office and lab, shunning computers and calculators and parrying the theoretical abstractions that often dominate the world of physics.

From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2022

They went back and forth, gentle parrying, trying to draw her out.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel