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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Teslas have infamously run right into the broadsides of trucks on Autopilot, but it’s been regularly ruled that is not any sort of defect in Autopilot, which is not designed to be or expected to be perfect at that task. Brad Templeton, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 Musk’s broadside against the legislation has threatened the fragile coalition of GOP lawmakers in the House, who passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act by one vote last month. Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 June 2025 The remainder of the eight-page post is a pointed broadside against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom Yorke called out the last time Radiohead played in Israel, in July 2017. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 30 May 2025 An unnamed senior White House official told CNBC on Thursday that the president’s social media broadside aimed at Powell was an effort to vent. Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 18 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences 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
  • 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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  • 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
  • Douglas McCarthy, the vocalist who hectored anarchic invective with EBM innovators Nitzer Ebb and who joined Depeche Mode keyboardist Alan Wilder’s Recoil side project, died Wednesday at the age of 58.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2025
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  • Juneteenth started with handbills proclaiming freedom.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 14 June 2025
  • 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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  • Despite the return of the daily barrage of trade headlines, the S & P 500 and the Nasdaq each closed at a record high Thursday.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 12 July 2025
  • The second barrage of legal documents, filed two weeks after the first lawsuit, also suggests that the detention center is already making an impact on the fragile ecosystem around it.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 11 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
  • 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
  • Distribution of these free circulars ended with Fred's retirement from NASA.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 June 2025
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  • Anxiety over a possible terrorist attack on the world’s then second-tallest building dramatically reduced the attractiveness of the 110-story tower at 233 S. Wacker Drive to some existing tenants and many prospective ones.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky kicked off the proceedings in Rome as Moscow pounded Ukraine’s capital with another major missile and drone attack overnight in some of the heaviest attacks on Kyiv in the more than three-year war.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2025
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  • Job candidates needed to submit their resumes to the city by Tuesday, according to the hiring brochure put out by the recruitment firm the city hired to conduct a national search.
    Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 13 June 2025
  • Citrus juice samples, spotless restrooms, and a treasure trove of travel brochures create an experience that’s part bathroom break, part mini-vacation kickoff.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 11 May 2025

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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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