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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Such broadsides may reach the GOP base but not the independent voters who will decide the election. Dan Merica, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024 The Harris campaign did not comment on Trump's broadside. Stephanie Murray, The Arizona Republic, 23 July 2024 The first two-thirds of the Detroit rapper’s new album is a broadside of in-your-face shock rap, with an occasional old-school feel that revives the vocal mannerisms and mean streak of his Slim Shady persona. Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2024 The political buzz has been that Cuomo would only run for mayor if Adams decides not to, but his latest broadside marks the sharpest criticism of the mayor’s track record to date. Michael Gartland, New York Daily News, 1 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for broadside 
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  • Maintained in this state of wild vexation by volleys of planetary radiation— what if a genie replaced your phone with the club of somebody’s tibia bone?
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The volley of digital ads paints Valadao as corrupt and responsible for the rising costs of housing and health care.
    Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024
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  • But the invective obscured a salient truth: many people were still unclear about where Harris stood on some of the central issues.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • But over the weekend his invective was turned directly on Navarro.
    Tom Tapp, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
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  • Unapproved pamphlets, fliers, handbills, etc. Weapons of any kind.
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Horizon’s inhabitants seem to have been lured from the East by handbills touting Edenic splendors.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
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  • Tensions between Israel and Iran remain at a boiling point, more than a week after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes into Iranian territory, the latest in a chain of retaliatory attacks after Iran fired a barrage of around 200 missiles at Israel in early October.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The dispute is part of a broader barrage of election lawsuits filed in the key swing state ahead of Tuesday’s contest.
    Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 1 Nov. 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
  • 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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  • These circulars are useful when planning, especially for doorbusters.
    Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Kate's meeting on Sept. 24 was listed in the court circular — the official rundown of duties the royal family undertakes — which is published in U.K. newspapers including The Times.
    Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024
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  • For the most part, Israel’s response to Hamas’s devastating October 7 attack was confined to the Gaza Strip.
    Carrie A. Lee, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Episodes often feature logistically complex armed attacks, guided from afar by the top brass, played by the likes of Kidman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Kelly, Jennifer Ehle, and Bruce McGill.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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  • Mezrich wrote brochures for a nonprofit while doggedly cranking out 40-odd pages a day on the side.
    Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The extensive Enchant brochure read like a cruise-ship itinerary, with countless fun things to do every hour on the hour, all day long.
    Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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