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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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 To the Federal Reserve, as Chair Jerome Powell relayed on Wednesday, tariffs are a broadside on economic growth. Alain Sherter, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2025 Markets slumped Monday following another Trump broadside against the Fed last week and news over the weekend from National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett that the administration was looking at legal analysis in removing Powell . Jeff Cox, CNBC, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for broadside
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  • Messi has scored volleys, half-volleys, soft chips, close-range headers, and several game-winners as an MLS player.
    Felipe Cardenas, New York Times, 14 June 2025
  • This apparent rapprochement follows accusations from both sides that the other country violated a May 12 truce negotiated in Geneva, which halted retaliatory tariff volleys between the two that veered as high as 145%.
    Michael Barclay, Quartz, 6 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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  • More Hossein Beris/Getty Images Iran launched a significant missile barrage on major cities across Israel on Friday.
    Amanda Castro Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • The Sixers signed George to a four-year max contract last offseason to round out their Big Three next to Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey, but that trio never got off the ground in 2024-25 due to a nonstop barrage of injuries.
    Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 19 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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  • Google confirming attacks on Gmail users is headline news (1,2).
    Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 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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  • Think less like a brochure, and more like a smart rep answering real customer questions.
    Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • The business model appeared solid on paper and in the many brochures and videos the company pushed out, promising to take control of all aspects of what can be a difficult home-construction process.
    Jeff Mcdonald, Mercury News, 13 June 2025

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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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