parrying

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

He allowed my brother to gain an advantage, then reversed their positions by parrying his thrusts.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein