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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That broadside helped send the Dow plummeting 1,000 points on the day. Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2025 After last week's tariff broadside targeting about 180 countries and territories sent markets tumbling, Trump announced a 90-day reprieve for most of those affected. Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025 That broadside served as a reminder of the perils of crossing Mr. Trump for many Republicans, who privately acknowledge that their nightmare scenario is his endorsing a primary challenger in their district. Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025 Cuomo leveled the broadside at his opponents during an evening speech at the West Side Institutional Synagogue in Manhattan. Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for broadside
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  • But a machine-gun volley hit him at the waist, nearly breaking him in two.
    Ann Goldstein, New Yorker, 25 May 2025
  • The Starkey saga, meanwhile, is a surprising end to a recent volley of updates about his involvement with the Who.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 May 2025
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  • Mike the promoter and his right-hand man, Shorty, a person with dwarfism who comes in for page after page of ableist invective.
    Lauren Elkin, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • Oilers fans booed the American national anthem, and one woman used a lull to shout an invective about Mr. Trump.
    John Branch, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2025
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  • 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
  • The article also indicates that there were handbills posted around the city in advance of the meeting to publicize it.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 2 Apr. 2025
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  • Crow-Armstrong, Michael Busch and Matt Shaw added to the home run barrage as the Cubs evened the series before a second straight sellout of 41,084, which included thousands of road-tripping Cubs fans.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025
  • Russia conducted its second-largest missile and drone attack on Ukraine since the start of its invasion in 2022, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) whose graph illustrate the response to Kyiv's drone barrage on Russian military airfields.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 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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  • When funding for these circulars came to an end, Fred picked up the eclipse baton and with the help of Canadian meteorologist Jay Anderson, produced their own eclipse circulars, funded under the auspices of NASA.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 3 June 2025
  • But the bigger problem now is the big bang of agency memos, bulletins, circulars, and other forms of regulatory dark matter—edicts that bypass traditional public-notice rulemaking procedures, allegedly lack the force of law, yet few are brave enough to ignore.
    Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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  • Try supplements: Certain supplements, such as Riboflavin and CoQ10, can help reduce the frequency and severity of attacks.
    Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
  • President Donald Trump has reinstated and expanded a travel ban targeting citizens from 12 countries, citing national security concerns following a recent terror attack in Boulder, Colorado.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
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  • The 2020 sales brochure noted that the plane was due for a landing gear overhaul in 2024 and a 12-year check in 2027.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • The league had delivered on the ambitious promise of its brochure.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025

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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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