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as in invective
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Recent Examples of broadside
Jesse Green, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Among 2025’s most promising selections are portraits of female icons, a film adaptation of a political broadside against neoliberalism, and a muckraking investigation into the world’s richest man.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2025
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Biden ignored Trump’s broadside.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
Trump's broadside against Zelenskyy included a call for new elections, despite the ongoing war.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025
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Noun
The opening salvo of broad satire that has now become a broadside, preaching mostly to a New York choir that agrees with the vaxxers and ridicules the antis, soon flips once more.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2024
Among 2025’s most promising selections are portraits of female icons, a film adaptation of a political broadside against neoliberalism, and a muckraking investigation into the world’s richest man.
—Erik Morse, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2025
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Biden ignored Trump’s broadside.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 10 Jan. 2025
Trump's broadside against Zelenskyy included a call for new elections, despite the ongoing war.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for broadside
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According to the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff, the North Korean troops retreated back across the Military Demarcation Line following loudspeaker warnings and a volley of warning gunfire at around 5 p.m. local time.—
Gordon G. Chang,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Apr. 2025
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March 29 Second Half Battle Sees NC State Fall The second half the game seemed to reflect a tennis volley with the score constantly switching back and forth throughout the third quarter.—
Allison Smith,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Congress often seems incapable of doing anything other than hurl petty invectives across the aisle.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 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
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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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Similar online handbills were mocked up for each of Idaho’s other three longtime federal delegates: Republicans U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, and Reps. Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
16 Mar. 2025
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Walker Kessler’s 3-point barrage Words soften over time.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Oscar Wilde’s infamous antihero Dorian Gray probably would’ve loved to have a barrage of cameras pointed at him, reflecting his gorgeous visage.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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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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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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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
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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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On Friday, a Russian ballistic missile and drone attack on the city of Kryvyi Rih -- Zelenskyy's home town -- killed 19 people, including nine children.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
6 Apr. 2025
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There has been a big labor split, however, with carpenters and laborers unions going heavily for Moreno — and waging tough attacks against Aguirre.—
Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Apr. 2025
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At its best, eclipse chasing is about exploring the world's remote and often overlooked areas according to a schedule set not by Instagram or glossy brochures but by where the moon's shadow happens to fall most dramatically.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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And at a major pork industry conference the same year, Elanco handed out brochures encouraging farmers to feed pigs a pair of antibiotics to make the animals grow fatter.—
Kenny Torrella,
Vox,
1 Mar. 2025
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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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