Examples of outflank in a Sentence
The army outflanked the enemy.
trying to outflank the competition
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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.
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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
Breaking out from the bridgehead would allow Ukrainian forces to outflank Russian defensive lines and pave the way on the southeast front toward Crimea, territory that Russia annexed in 2014.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
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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
Breaking out from the bridgehead would allow Ukrainian forces to outflank Russian defensive lines and pave the way on the southeast front toward Crimea, territory that Russia annexed in 2014.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2024
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outflank
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out·flank
(ˈ)au̇t-ˈflaŋk 
: to get around the side of (a military formation)
outflank the enemy
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