- present participle of parry.
parrying
Example Sentences
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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 very witty and had razor-sharp quips, parrying every attempt at connection with playful defiance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 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
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
