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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  • Iran responded by launching volleys of missiles at Israeli targets in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
    Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Advertisement The fragile ceasefire appeared to come about quickly late Monday, after Iran retaliated to the U.S. airstrike with a dangerous but largely symbolic volley of ballistic missiles targeting major U.S. base in Qatar.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 24 June 2025
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  • 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
  • His tommy-gun dialogue, much of it laced with withering invective and punctuated with profanity, started a shift in the language of both theater and movies in this country.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Apr. 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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  • To be fair, the drone barrages may still have aided Iran by diverting attention from ballistic missiles and compelling expenditures of expensive missiles.
    Sebastien Roblin, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The barrage included targets in Western Ukraine, a region far from the front lines that doesn't often see bombardments.
    Greg Dixon, NPR, 30 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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  • 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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  • Sunday’s attacks follow Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments two days ago that Moscow is ready for a fresh round of direct peace talks in Istanbul.
    Volodymyr Yurchuk, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2025
  • Russia has stepped up attacks on Ukraine despite talks between the two countries in Istanbul, which were supposed to lead to a ceasefire.
    Joanna Kakissis, NPR, 29 June 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 10 Jul. 2025.

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