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- verb Present participle of
wrong-foot .
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Examples
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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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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
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What is it about the holiday season that is wrong-footing investors?
Winter Chill Hits GM Liam Denning 2011
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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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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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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
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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
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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".
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Murray saves one break point and then another with a wrong-footing cross-court forehand.
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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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