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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
Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2026
This was before Weiss promoted Ben Shapiro’s broadside against Kelly at Turning Point’s annual conference, triggering a searing response from the conservative commentator.
—Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 23 Dec. 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
This song from West Coast singer-songwriter Odin Coleman takes a different sonic approach, conjuring centuries-old Appalachian traditions in this banjo broadside.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2026
This was before Weiss promoted Ben Shapiro’s broadside against Kelly at Turning Point’s annual conference, triggering a searing response from the conservative commentator.
—Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 23 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for broadside
Adverb
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Where traditional sonars read down, underneath the boat, FFS reads sideways.—
Mike McFeely,
Twin Cities,
24 Apr. 2026
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Aspiration’s finances went sideways, however, as Sanberg was charged with wire fraud and Aspiration filed for bankruptcy.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Esmee Brugts easily cut inside Giulia Gwinn to deliver the cross for Pajor to score with a volley.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Then, two minutes later, just after coming off the bench, 39-year-old Suarez doubled the lead with a decisive, powerful volley to the same corner.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
23 Apr. 2026
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At one point, the crew shot a scene in which Whalen’s character joins a bar fight, shouting invectives at a hapless extra before pummelling him to the ground.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
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Riley would have invented invectives.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
17 Apr. 2026
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Posters, handbills, ephemera—all were charged with code-red urgency.—
Joel Lobenthal,
Air Mail,
7 Mar. 2026
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No unauthorized solicitation and materials including handbills, flyers, stickers, beach balls, giveaways, samples, etc. Weapons or explosives of any kind.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
27 Feb. 2026
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On Saturday, Moscow pummeled the central city of Dnipro and other areas for more than twenty hours with barrages of missiles and drones, killing at least seven people.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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During the most recent war, videos circulated online of construction workers from China who filmed themselves stranded high in the air during missile barrages, afraid and without protection.—
Theia Chatelle,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Apr. 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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Canada’s largest lender also plans to increase annual compensation for its board directors by 22% to C$415,000 per year following a review by an external consultant, Royal Bank said in its annual proxy circular, filed Thursday.—
Christine Dobby,
Bloomberg,
5 Mar. 2026
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Look for items on sale via the weekly store circular.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
13 Feb. 2026
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Slegers spent the final few minutes of the game summoning all her tallest players from the bench, in order to guard against a OL Lyonnes aerial bombardment that never quite arrived.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Last year, while docked at a Yemeni port, his vessel came under bombardment.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
19 Apr. 2026
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“Broadside.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/broadside. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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