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Recent Examples of broadside
Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Other administration officials have been much more direct, sometimes scathing in their broadsides at Powell.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 16 July 2025
The broadside by Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought opened up a new front in Trump’s war of words against Powell.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 10 July 2025
Last month, Armstrong celebrated Green Day’s debut appearance at the Download Festival in the U.K. with another broadside against the administration.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 July 2025
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Adverb
Just last week, Trump fired the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official after a broadside by Loomer.
—Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Other administration officials have been much more direct, sometimes scathing in their broadsides at Powell.
—Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 16 July 2025
The broadside by Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought opened up a new front in Trump’s war of words against Powell.
—Dan Mangan, CNBC, 10 July 2025
Last month, Armstrong celebrated Green Day’s debut appearance at the Download Festival in the U.K. with another broadside against the administration.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for broadside
Adverb
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Beat overcommitment syndrome, get the right things done, and build real influence with your colleagues up, down, sideways, and diagonal—all over the organization chart.—
Bruce Tulgan,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The trouble is if that series goes sideways, the Mariners could still find themselves in a dogfight with the Rangers and Guardians for the last playoff spot.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Footage of the game showed off its sleek new graphics, with a doubles match leaving Mario reeling to connect with a volley as his feet slip in realistic grass.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
12 Sep. 2025
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Sure didn’t look that way at the outset, and Sabalenka used a nifty drop-shot-volley-winner combination to help go up a break and grab a 4-2 lead.—
Howard Fendrich,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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His politics may explain Whitehouse’s general opposition to the current occupant of the White House, though not necessarily the invective.—
Jeremy Lott,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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The actor also has been involved in occurrences of being verbal and physically aggressive, hurling racists invectives, as well as being out and out violent on a number of occasions.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
22 July 2025
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Pamphlets, flyers and handbills unless approved by management.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
28 Aug. 2025
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Juneteenth started with handbills proclaiming freedom.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
14 June 2025
Noun
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This coalesces and makes sense of the barrage of assaults designed to undermine Americans’ trust in our country, our Constitution and all the principles upon which it was built.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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When Lauryn Licari and Owen McKenny finally learned who was behind the barrage of incessant, cruel texts that broke them up and created mass paranoia at their small Midwestern school, the truth was almost too impossible to believe.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Though Gaudí’s fund-raising circular had specified the cross’s appearance, and the model in the warehouse had survived, how to actually build it and which materials to use had been up to Faulí and his team.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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In addition to weekly sales available in circulars, discounts in the Giant Eagle mobile app, and grocery and fuel rewards through a loyalty program, the spokesman said Giant Eagle will be working with suppliers to explore all opportunities to maintain and reduce costs.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
1 Sep. 2025
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While Polish jets have been scrambled before following previous Russian drone bombardments, the latest attack has raised concerns over whether Moscow is, in fact, testing NATO's resolve, something which could provoke an escalation in the war.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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The evacuation orders caused panic and confusion among residents of the strip's largest urban centre, who say there is no safe place to go to escape bombardment and a humanitarian crisis.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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