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broadside

[brawd-sahyd] / ˈbrɔdˌsaɪd /




NOUN
fusillade
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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

Congress sent him a Dunlap broadside shortly after its publication.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 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

“Why don’t you bring the broadside over to Number Three tonight and we’ll slog through that wretched thing together.”

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

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

In July, while zipping along on his scooter, Hurtado was broadsided.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2022

“Yeah,” Mr. Macron mumbled, before being broadsided by a bunch of other questions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 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

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

When the ships had swung apart, the broadsiding continued, increasingly to the advantage of the Serapis.

From Paul Jones by Hutchins Hapgood

Around and around she veered, broadsiding with astonishing accuracy, and knocking the spars about like a foot-ball team kicking a ball.

From Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston

All he asked of anybody, by God! was to be let alone, though this broadsiding of defenseless people made him sick at the stummick, it did.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Lloyd Osbourne


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