broadside
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That rare broadside is displayed alongside a more obscure document: the so-called Declaration of Dependence signed by 547 Loyalists, a reminder that political unanimity was elusive from the nation’s earliest days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Canadian Alex Tagliani hit Zanardi's car broadside, at close to 200mph, tearing off its nose.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
Days before filing his lawsuit, Sun issued a lengthy broadside against WLF on X, labeling the firm “World Tyranny” Financial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2026
If he finds it to his benefit to launch another broadside against Petro, he won’t hesitate to do it.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026
“If they broadside us we’ll flip for sure!”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
Meanwhile, here was a drama about humans living in a galaxy far, far away, broadsided by an enemy they didn’t take seriously enough.
From Salon ● May 5, 2026
After all, California has seemed on the cusp of finally getting its arms around COVID-19 before, only to be broadsided by the arrival of some freshly mutated variant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2022
When she was 16 and “a car broadsided me while I was on my bike,” her injuries were “really, really painful.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2022
His wife Neilia and 13-month-old daughter Naomi died after their car was broadsided while they were en route to pick up a Christmas tree.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 2021
Mother, I see some very interesting persons here—a young master’s mate, who was on the Hatteras, when surprised and broadsided by the Alabama, Capt Semmes—he gave me a very good acc’t of it all—then Capt.
From The Wound Dresser A Series of Letters Written from the Hospitals in Washington during the War of the Rebellion by Walt Whitman
It slid off the end of the runway, broadsiding a steel tower that held landing lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
They blew past two of the plesios, Missy clobbering one with her tail and broadsiding the other, sending it and its riders collapsing into the water.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
There ensue five days of intricate sea-work; not much of broadsiding, mainly tugging out of sunk War-Ships, and the like, to get alongside of Castle Grand, which is the chief obstruction.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle
When the ships had swung apart, the broadsiding continued, increasingly to the advantage of the Serapis.
From Paul Jones by Hutchins Hapgood
Byng's Sea-fight, done with due dexterity of manoeuvring, and then with due emphasis of broadsiding, decisive of that absurd War, and almost the one creditable action in it, dates itself 10th August, 1718.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 by Thomas Carlyle
