broadside 1 of 2

as in sideways
with one side faced forward one car hit the other broadside and crushed the passenger door

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broadside

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noun

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Markets slumped Monday following another Trump broadside against the Fed last week and news over the weekend from National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett that the administration was looking at legal analysis in removing Powell . Jeff Cox, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025 O'Brien himself accepted the honor with a not-so-subtle broadside against the Trump administration. Jeff Mason, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025 The Hill’s Niall Stanage in The Memo notes how Trump has ramped up his broadsides aimed at the courts. Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 11 Feb. 2025 These public broadsides have hinted at Trump’s vision of a different American materialism: more Cybertrucks, less French wine. Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for broadside
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  • But Alcaraz roared back to win the third set, punctuating it with a forehand volley into the open court that snapped Sinner’s streak of 32 straight sets won at majors.
    Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
  • In post-production, each frame was stitched together with a little bit of CGI (okay, a lot of CGI) to get that slow-motion backbend as his character, Neo, dodges a volley of air-distorting bullets.
    Joe Salas June 07, New Atlas, 7 June 2025
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  • Mike the promoter and his right-hand man, Shorty, a person with dwarfism who comes in for page after page of ableist invective.
    Lauren Elkin, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Oilers fans booed the American national anthem, and one woman used a lull to shout an invective about Mr. Trump.
    John Branch, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2025
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  • An anonymous handbill from 1837, later attributed to Lincoln, represents the young politician’s foray into Illinois state politics.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The article also indicates that there were handbills posted around the city in advance of the meeting to publicize it.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 2 Apr. 2025
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  • Russia conducted its second-largest missile and drone attack on Ukraine since the start of its invasion in 2022, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) whose graph illustrate the response to Kyiv's drone barrage on Russian military airfields.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 June 2025
  • Crow-Armstrong, Michael Busch and Matt Shaw added to the home run barrage as the Cubs evened the series before a second straight sellout of 41,084, which included thousands of road-tripping Cubs fans.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025
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  • Flash forward 92-plus years to Donald Trump’s rally Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a bleak, lurid festival of racist hate and profane vituperation so vile that even fellow Republicans, who have turned a blind eye to Trump’s character for years, are distancing themselves from the event.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The politicization of the COVID response has only worsened this trend, likely resulting in part from Trump’s vituperation.
    Matt Motta, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2024
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  • When funding for these circulars came to an end, Fred picked up the eclipse baton and with the help of Canadian meteorologist Jay Anderson, produced their own eclipse circulars, funded under the auspices of NASA.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 June 2025
  • But the bigger problem now is the big bang of agency memos, bulletins, circulars, and other forms of regulatory dark matter—edicts that bypass traditional public-notice rulemaking procedures, allegedly lack the force of law, yet few are brave enough to ignore.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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  • Try supplements: Certain supplements, such as Riboflavin and CoQ10, can help reduce the frequency and severity of attacks.
    Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
  • The decision came just days after an Egyptian man in Colorado was arrested and charged with carrying out an attack on a group honoring hostages being held in Gaza.
    Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times, 5 June 2025
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  • The exhibition takes its title from a slogan found on brochures, maps, and souvenirs from the Dickeyville Grotto.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • See, what’s not on the Niagara Falls/Buffalo brochure is that Buffalo’s got a whole lotta soul.
    Rafael Peña, Miami Herald, 6 June 2025

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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.

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