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outflank

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To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.

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the goal was to best the competition Source: Internet

An attempt to outflank Lee from the south failed under Butler, who was trapped inside the Bermuda Hundred river bend. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

A secondary objective may have been to outflank the front line. Source: Internet

Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin was concerned that the supposed Egyptian shelling was the prelude to an amphibious landing that could outflank Israeli forces. Source: Internet

Burgoyne tried to outflank the Americans but was checked at the first battle of Saratoga in September. Source: Internet

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