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The Japanese prime minister’s resilience in the face of Chinese pressure could also be instructive to so-called middle powers that are searching for a way to parry pressure from both China and the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Leeds goalkeeper Karl Darlow could then only parry another dangerous delivery from the England winger into his own goal before half-time.

From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026

The precocious girls soon cotton on to the headmistress’s ruse and parry her appeals to dish on Miss Brodie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

I know the jokes are supposed to sound like and how it’s supposed to hit and how we’re supposed to parry off of another statement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025

Bands of Redwall mice practiced at thrust and parry with staves.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

Omundson parries: “As soon as you said you liked ‘Pysch,’ I knew you were a great man.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2021

Kent Spitfires' Jordan Cox parries the ball to Matt Milnes for an outstanding relay catch to dismiss Somerset's Lewis Gregory during the final of the T20 Blast at Edgbaston.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2021

Alan’s ready for him and parries, and attacks.

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

England midfielder Keira Walsh was a standout performer against Arsenal and it was her strike which was parried into the path of Thompson for the only goal.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 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

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

When I asked Mr. Cornyn about it, he parried the question.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

The next day, when Fischer and Bronstein continued the game, both men parried for twenty more moves.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

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

With practiced steps, she twirls the sword through the air in graceful arcs, thrusting and parrying against an invisible foe.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray