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Recent Examples of outflank
Labour has been outflanked on the Left by the Lib Dems, who have pledged an additional £27 billion in spending for health and public services, funded by a rise in CGT and various levies.
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The Week Uk, theweek, 29 June 2024
Sunak is especially vulnerable to the success of the Reform Party – a right-wing group attempting to outflank him on immigration – and the Liberal Democrats, a centrist, pro-European group who have chipped away at Conservative support in affluent, southern parts of England.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 23 May 2024
Listen to this article Democrat Tom Suozzi is focusing on the crisis at the southern border in an unusual effort to outflank Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip in their Feb. 13 special election battle for the Long Island congressional seat previously held by disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
The United States should also try to outflank its rivals by thinking strategically about where revisionists could mobilize support for an alternative and more illiberal international order in the future.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
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The Week Uk, theweek, 29 June 2024
Sunak is especially vulnerable to the success of the Reform Party – a right-wing group attempting to outflank him on immigration – and the Liberal Democrats, a centrist, pro-European group who have chipped away at Conservative support in affluent, southern parts of England.
—Rob Picheta, CNN, 23 May 2024
Listen to this article Democrat Tom Suozzi is focusing on the crisis at the southern border in an unusual effort to outflank Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip in their Feb. 13 special election battle for the Long Island congressional seat previously held by disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2024
The United States should also try to outflank its rivals by thinking strategically about where revisionists could mobilize support for an alternative and more illiberal international order in the future.
—Stacie E. Goddard, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for outflank
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Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking, two sources familiar with the group’s operations told Reuters this year.Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2024
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El Monte police said that charges of kidnapping and felony evading would be submitted to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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Last year, France proposed a ban on social media for those under 15, though users were able to avoid the ban with parental consent.Reuters, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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The MacBook and Mac mini have traditionally avoided the iPhone's rainbow of color options, usually sticking to sedate bare metal and gray or silver finishes.Brian Westover, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Physical evidence that ice sheets covered the interior of continents in warm equatorial regions had eluded scientists – until now.Liam Courtney-Davies, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2024
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Their reproductive organs have eluded researchers in countless dissections, and observing their mating behavior was impossible—until recently.Scott Travers, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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Firefighters rescued one person who was trapped and assisted others in escaping the building.Doha Madani, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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But the new migrants were more visible than their predecessors, as many applied for asylum or entered through other legal pathways instead of trying to escape arrest at the border.Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2024
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Meanwhile, Eric’s sister Ivanka, who once ran a fashion and branding empire of her own, has shunned the spotlight entirely in the last four years.Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
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Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had shunned Lebanon since 2021 because of Iranian interference in the country’s politics and Hezbollah’s powerful role.Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2024
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Lichtman eschews the more defensible probabilistic forecasts like the ones from Nate Silver and other number crunchers.Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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In Her Words eschews the type of talking-head interviews that fill many other documentaries.Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
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Over the next few years, a plague of disorder will descend upon America, and maybe the world, shaking everything loose.David Brooks, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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Maybe that’s why World Cups end with the two teams shaking hands, one offering congratulations and the other condolences, and elections don’t.Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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It's since gotten harder to circumvent, but there are still ways to get around the ban.Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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And while these models have stronger guardrails built in to prevent misuse, many people have found ways to ‘jailbreak’ them, effectively circumventing these guardrails.Tharin Pillay, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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