diversion
misdirect
evasive
feint
brushback pitch
detain
shadowbox
defensive
distractionism
look off
bite
diversionism
red herring
bottle it
inconspicuously
upstage
countertactic
get in someone's hair
deke
withdraw
catch someone napping
antichemotaxis
smoke screen
smokescreen
ruse
artifice
watch one's back
abience
ask for it
antitaxic
stall
unfocus
forbid
zwischenzug
intermezzo
false attack
end run
scarecrow
holding action
take the game to
psychic numbing
sabotage
traverse
dishearten
downregulation
power play
toe-dance
keep one's head down
avoidant
dissemble
elusion
counterstrike
close down
poker face
slip
attention whore
eluding
cut the ground from under someone's feet
back away
trap
ambuscade
incautiousness
crying
neutralize
threaten
distract
counterbalance
damn the torpedoes
lying in wait
mask
miscue
countervail
ambush
shots fired
incaution
stick to one's text
ostrichism
counteract
deflect
counterreconnaissance
arrestingly
Streisand effect
send to Coventry
Pickett's charge
shirtfront
repelling
DoS
tactfulness
skate over
holler copper
antisensationalism
antagonize
wag the dog
nonconfrontation
bat away

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