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

Inter was almost made to pay for its profligacy as Samir Handanović had to make the first save of the match in the 16th minute with the Nerazzurri goalkeeper parrying Dodô’s snapshot.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2021

He had never been in better form, weighing, parrying, answering the questions.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey