parrying
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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
She was witty and had razor-sharp quips, parrying every attempt at deeper connection with playful defiance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 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
Indeed, it could have won it late but veteran Shakhtar goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov did brilliantly with the 37-year-old first denying Joaquín Correa’s curling effort before parrying Stefan De Vrij’s header moments later.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
He allowed my brother to gain an advantage, then reversed their positions by parrying his thrusts.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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