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Outflank meaning
To maneuver around and behind the flank of (an opposing force). | To gain a tactical advantage over (a competitor, for example).
Example sentences (20)
Donald Trump's main rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination talked up their tough stances on abortion Friday as they sought to outflank the frontrunner on an issue he has been accused of fudging.
He was for the COVID-19 vaccines before he was against them, but now Florida’s governor is all-in on vaccine skepticism—and hoping to use the issue to outflank Trump on the right.
Those include military tactics like using a leapfrog technique to provide proper cover for each other and outflank the shooter or shooters.
At the moment, there is no indication that Father Rydzyk will align himself with any of the small right-wing parties trying to outflank Law and Justice.
Their jockeying, punctuated by efforts to outflank each other to the political left and conduct a middebate Spanish-speaking contest, could alienate swing voters important to the party's chances against Trump in November 2020.
Orban’s move further toward the political extremes has also been tactical, Bíró-Nagy said, and an attempt to outflank the controversial, insurgent far-right party Jobbik.
President Xi can outflank and extinguish this plot by giving diplomatic parity to the ROC so that both sides of the Taiwan Strait can then have a dialogue among equals just like Seoul and Pyongyang.
There was just one place where Romney could outflank him: immigration.
You mean if they aren’t hamstrung by needless and numerous PC rules from Obama, the Marines can outwit, outflank, and outmaneuver the enemy to defeat them?
An attacker may try to outflank this wedge, or lure it into traps, but such advances are often more dangerous to the attacker than the defender.
An attempt to outflank Lee from the south failed under Butler, who was trapped inside the Bermuda Hundred river bend.
A secondary objective may have been to outflank the front line.
Burgoyne tried to outflank the Americans but was checked at the first battle of Saratoga in September.
Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin was concerned that the supposed Egyptian shelling was the prelude to an amphibious landing that could outflank Israeli forces.
He used these batteries to break his opponent's infantry line, while his cavalry would outflank their heavy guns.
In battle, they were used to disrupt and outflank enemy infantry formations and to fight off enemy cavalry.
Lee was not certain of Grant's specific plans, however; if Grant was not intending to cross the Pamunkey in force at Hanovertown, the Union army could outflank him and head directly to Richmond.
May 2008, p. 100: "Tyler planned to outflank the Whigs by gaining support from the Democratic Party or possibly creating a new party..
Stacey, p. 108 One LCA's rudder from "B" Company had jammed, and that platoon landed far to the left of the rest of "B" Company, enabling them to outflank and destroy the gun emplacements.
The Guards spearhead did not having the strength to outflank the line.