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  • verb Present participle of wrong-foot.

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Examples

  • So, often as important meetings with U.S. officials approach, Vietnamese security services crack down on dissent, wrong-footing generally pro-American politicians.

    As Clinton visit nears, Vietnam arrests bloggers, sentences activists John Pomfret 2010

  • Sweden's midfielder Nilla Fischer sent the ball screeching into the area, where it deflected off Le Peilbet's hip and nestled into the right corner of the goal, wrong-footing Solo, who was moving to her left to make the save.

    Sloppy U.S. Team Falls to Sweden Laura Stevens 2011

  • What is it about the holiday season that is wrong-footing investors?

    Winter Chill Hits GM Liam Denning 2011

  • So, often as important meetings with U.S. officials approach, Vietnamese security services crack down on dissent, wrong-footing generally pro-American politicians.

    As Clinton visit nears, Vietnam arrests bloggers, sentences activists John Pomfret 2010

  • So, often as important meetings with U.S. officials approach, Vietnamese security services crack down on dissent, wrong-footing generally pro-American politicians.

    As Clinton visit nears, Vietnam arrests bloggers, sentences activists John Pomfret 2010

  • Like Gandhi, who was jailed several times and once led a 250-mile march to protest a British salt tax, Mr. Hazare has proved to be a master of political theater, repeatedly wrong-footing the government.

    A Gandhi Model Galvanizes India Amol Sharma 2011

  • Miliband thus recovered on Wednesday ("a score draw" – Quentin Letts, Daily Mail) by wrong-footing Cameron ("he switched quickly to abuse, which he does when he knows he's got it wrong" – Simon Hoggart, Guardian) over the impact of coalition benefit cuts on recovering cancer patients.

    Why we should cherish prime minister's questions | Michael White 2011

  • For a start, she has determinedly made her fictional arena the family, her setting the home and her sphere of engagement the relationships between husbands and wives, parents and children: despite their intricate imagery, delicately weighted prose and frequently wrong-footing moral complexity, her novels and short stories are often placed in the reductive category of "domestic fiction".

    Tessa Hadley: A life in writing 2011

  • Murray saves one break point and then another with a wrong-footing cross-court forehand.

    Andy Murray v Kei Nishikori – live! | Steve Busfield 2012

  • So, often as important meetings with U.S. officials approach, Vietnamese security services crack down on dissent, wrong-footing generally pro-American politicians.

    As Clinton visit nears, Vietnam arrests bloggers, sentences activists John Pomfret 2010

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