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Recent Examples of broadside
Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
The head came up broadside, facing to Bill’s left, and Bill sought the bear’s ear with the crosshairs.
—Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
William D. Brown, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2025
Displacing around 18,000 tons, she was powered by steam turbines (the first to do so) and was armed with ten 12-inch (305 mm) guns arranged in five turrets, for all-big-gun broadside firepower.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
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Adverb
The six-point bull turned broadside, and Teig pulled his arrow back.
—Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025
The head came up broadside, facing to Bill’s left, and Bill sought the bear’s ear with the crosshairs.
—Marguerite Reiss, Outdoor Life, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
The sow stood about 20 yards away on all fours, broadside to me with her head down.
—William D. Brown, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2025
Displacing around 18,000 tons, she was powered by steam turbines (the first to do so) and was armed with ten 12-inch (305 mm) guns arranged in five turrets, for all-big-gun broadside firepower.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for broadside
Adverb
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If everything goes sideways, save for health, for these Rangers, come midseason having Corey Seager, Jacob deGrom, Nathan Eovaldi and MacKenzie Gore to trade certainly would accelerate the ability to restock the farm system.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Building the infrastructure that didn't exist Cho came to wine sideways, through her husband Dave, who was the one with the passion project.—
Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes.com,
20 Jan. 2026
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There would be a few more grins that morning, including one when Michelsen missed an easy volley.—
Matthew Futterman,
New York Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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Video shows Husien falling to the ground, and moments later being driven over by a police SUV, which was followed by another volley of police gunfire.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
23 Jan. 2026
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After years of inflammatory social-media posts and antisemitic invective, Kanye West has taken out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal that traces his erratic behavior to his 2002 car crash.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
26 Jan. 2026
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Today, a Luddite is your grandparent who keeps looking at the screen rather than the camera when on Zoom, the Boomer who types in all-capital letters, the grouchy man who refuses to get a smart phone, the professor spewing invective against Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Tools, such as pliers, wrenches, hammers, screw drivers, etc. Pamphlets, flyers, handbills, etc.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
5 Oct. 2025
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Pamphlets, flyers and handbills unless approved by management.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
The Enquirer,
28 Aug. 2025
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Eleven years ago, Tom Brady was buried on the same field under a barrage of sacks, hits and hurries in an upset that sprung the Broncos to the Super Bowl.—
Andrew Callahan,
Hartford Courant,
26 Jan. 2026
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The scandal erupted at the end of last year when the AI chatbot churned out a barrage of digitally undressed images of women and children in response to requests from users.—
Lianne Kolirin,
CNN Money,
26 Jan. 2026
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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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The Tennessean looked at weekly circulars from more than a dozen stores, including Middle Tennessee staples like Aldi, Dollar General, BJ's Wholesale Club.—
Gabrielle Chenault,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Dec. 2025
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Shoppers would camp outside of stores, paper circulars in hand, eagerly awaiting the chance to bust down some doors and save a ton of cash.—
Simon Hill,
Wired News,
29 Nov. 2025
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The bombardment of political ads will commence this week.—
Paul Miller,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Jan. 2026
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Israel launched a widespread bombardment of Lebanon in September 2024 that severely weakened Hezbollah, followed by a ground invasion.—
Bassem Mroue,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Jan. 2026
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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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