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as in handbill
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Recent Examples of broadside
Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2025
Bush’s broadside pushed the creators of The Simpsons to fire back by tacking on a scene to the opening of that week’s episode, a rerun.
—Alan Siegel, The Atlantic, 11 June 2025
Paramount late Tuesday agreed to a landmark settlement with Trump to end his $20-billion broadside against CBS News.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
The book, a broadside at Yale’s faculty and administration, would define the genre of academic jeremiad.
—Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
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Congress has reauthorized funding for the corporation for decades, despite regular Republican broadsides against PBS and NPR.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2025
Bush’s broadside pushed the creators of The Simpsons to fire back by tacking on a scene to the opening of that week’s episode, a rerun.
—Alan Siegel, The Atlantic, 11 June 2025
Paramount late Tuesday agreed to a landmark settlement with Trump to end his $20-billion broadside against CBS News.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025
The book, a broadside at Yale’s faculty and administration, would define the genre of academic jeremiad.
—Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for broadside
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But Ashe is already halfway up the court, pouncing on the short ball and punching the volley away with ease to clinch the Wimbledon title.—
Matias Grez,
CNN Money,
5 July 2025
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After 54 years of tennis in Linwood, the club served its last volley in May.—
Scott Wartman,
The Enquirer,
2 July 2025
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The actor also has been involved in occurrences of being verbal and physically aggressive, hurling racists invectives, as well as being out and out violent on a number of occasions.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
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After nights of clashes, then-President Donald Trump, known for issuing directives and invectives through social media, fired off a series of posts shortly before 1 a.m. on Friday, May 29, 2020.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
24 May 2025
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Juneteenth started with handbills proclaiming freedom.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 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
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Ionescu’s barrage continued, however, with a 25-foot trey after Kennedy Burke’s block on Satou Sabally.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
25 July 2025
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So far, Powell is resisting cutting rates, hence the barrage of insults and threat of firing.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
24 July 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
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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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Up until 1994, the U.S. Naval Observatory routinely issued special circulars in advance of major solar eclipses.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
3 June 2025
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Distribution of these free circulars ended with Fred's retirement from NASA.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
3 June 2025
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The restaurant was a favorite hangout of the Gilbert Goons and the site of seven parking lot attacks, according to beating videos, interviews and police records.—
Perry Vandell,
AZCentral.com,
24 July 2025
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Waves of Iranian missile and drone attacks on Israel have tested the mettle of that country's Iron Dome.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
23 July 2025
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Radically Simplify Recruitment & Marketing The vast machinery of admissions – glossy brochures, armies of recruiters crisscrossing the country, sophisticated enrollment management systems – consumes enormous resources with questionable ROI.—
Scott White,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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The brochures are not written from the point of view of a sales pitch for using his services.—
Elliot Raphaelson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
25 July 2025
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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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