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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Trump's broadside against Zelenskyy included a call for new elections, despite the ongoing war. David Brennan, ABC News, 20 Feb. 2025 The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability published its own broadside, and after summoning the Big Three’s leaders to testify, committee leadership accused them of lying (and threatened them with jail time). Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for broadside
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  • But Louisiana is set to perform its first execution by nitrogen gas Tuesday, after a volley of court decisions blocked and then paved the way for the execution, arguing by turns the method was cruel or humane.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
  • One of my favorite recent finds is a Korean-language creator sprinting between the left and right channels of the mic, landing critical-hits on your ears by tickling both sides in a mad volley.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 12 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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  • This constant barrage of discordant, unexpected, and often troubling news tends to distract us and erode our concentration.
    Alissa Quart, TIME, 13 Mar. 2025
  • As an intense low-pressure system and cold front is forecasted to sweep across the country Thursday and Friday, residents and businesses from Arkansas and Louisiana into the Ohio Valley are bracing for a barrage of severe weather conditions.
    Jim Foerster, Forbes, 13 Mar. 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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  • The attack starts with hackers uploading what looks like a harmless extension to the Chrome Web Store.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Grimes said that, in the experience of KnowBe4, social engineering is involved in 70% - 90% of all successful hacking attacks.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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  • It’s also had a chilling effect: In Zambia, one group removed information in brochures on contraception, and in Turkey, some providers stopped talking with patients about menstrual regulation as a form of family planning.
    Kff Health News, Orange County Register, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Marketers selling the dream vacation populate their brochures with images from these picturesque locations.
    Roger Dooley, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025

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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.

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