onside
adverb or adjective
on·side
ˈȯn-ˈsīd 
ˈän-
: not offside : in a position legally to play or receive the ball or puck
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If done quickly enough, while staying onside, that could be a smart way of catching teams out.
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Art De Roché, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Yet while all three U.S. partners will work hard to keep Washington onside, full economic decoupling from China will be a stretch.
—Lynn Kuok, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
In a sign of the two leaders’ intimacy—and the importance, for Netanyahu, of keeping Trump onside—the Israeli prime minister rushed to Washington on Sunday to see Trump for the second time in three months.
—Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2025
The situation is now so delicate and tenuous that any manager with an interest in self-preservation would surely be trying to keep the fans onside.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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Art De Roché, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
Yet while all three U.S. partners will work hard to keep Washington onside, full economic decoupling from China will be a stretch.
—Lynn Kuok, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
In a sign of the two leaders’ intimacy—and the importance, for Netanyahu, of keeping Trump onside—the Israeli prime minister rushed to Washington on Sunday to see Trump for the second time in three months.
—Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2025
The situation is now so delicate and tenuous that any manager with an interest in self-preservation would surely be trying to keep the fans onside.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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“Onside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onside. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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