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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Worst of all, many said, were the broadsides delivered by Mr. Musk and the White House portraying the agency as a rogue, criminal agency run by spendthrift officials pursuing their personal agendas. Declan Walsh, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025 Frasers Group, owned by British retail billionaire Mike Ashley, has launched another broadside against Boohoo, alleging that the fast-fashion retailer is paying more than £2 million ($2.5 million) each year in undisclosed fees to its cofounder’s son. Robert Olsen, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025 The written broadside that the agency’s top immigration official leveled against her own employees underscored the shift underway. Devlin Barrett, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2025 Trump delivered the broadside on Truth Social two hours after the Fed opted to maintain a key interest rate at its current level. Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 29 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for broadside
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  • To be sure, the initial product volley — 55 lipsticks, 10 lip balms and eight eye palettes — would be enough to fill a small trunk, the most emblematic product of the French luxury giant, which was established in 1854.
    Miles Socha, WWD, 5 Mar. 2025
  • But the 2024 numbers showed that such a stereotype is being put away like a Serena Williams volley.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
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  • Such invective, coming from a saboteur with firsthand experience of institutional prudishness, put DeGenevieve in a paradoxical position: that of a professor who, because she was tenured, had the luxury of deriding her own ivory tower.
    Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Yet some of us in the audience, disgusted by the persistence of Nazism and anti-immigrant invective in the present, may well appreciate the force of McQueen’s rhetoric.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
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  • Its only adornment was a framed picture of Mazen, the same one that had been on the handbills.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • An ordinance prohibiting the distribution of handbills or solicitation on private property before sunrise or after sunset — or 7 p.m., whichever is later.
    Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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  • Punk eliminated Paul via GTS, getting a modicum of revenge after Paul previously tossed him out of the Royal Rumble. Cena and Punk embraced in the middle of the ring before exchanging a barrage of punches.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Tesla sales have almost halved in Europe in January amid Musk’s work for Trump, his support for Germany’s AfD party and his barrage of social media attacks on the continent’s top politicians and left-wing groups.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 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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  • Other ways to save on eggs include using store circulars, or buying them with a cash-back credit card.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 13 Feb. 2025
  • The Leader’s circulars feature items at these stores: Best Buy, Cash Wise Foods, EconoFoods, Factory Direct Furniture, Menards, Shopko, Slumberland Furniture, Target and Walmart Also, check out Sports, Looking Back, The Week Ahead, Picture from the Past, puzzles and more.
    Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
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  • But in light of ongoing attacks against PayPal accounts using emails sent from genuine PayPal addresses, how will this help protect you from hackers and scammers?
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Hamas started the war with its Oct. 7, 2023, attack that left 1,200 dead in Israel, mostly civilians, and took some 250 hostage.
    Samy Magdy and David Rising, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
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  • The rental agreement allows Walgreens to terminate its lease for the 12,400-square-foot building in 2026 or 2031, the brochure states.
    George Avalos, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Informational brochures on Medicaid expansion during an event held by New Hanover County Department of Health and Human Services at a library in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Dec.16, 2023.
    Renuka Rayasam, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2025

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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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