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sideswipe

verb as in crash

verb as in glance

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In December last year, the Philippines said China's coast guard fired water cannons and "sideswiped" a government vessel during a maritime patrol near the Scarborough Shoal.

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Tailed by deputies, the suspect sideswiped a semi-truck but continued driving.

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The Philippines says the China Coast Guard has fired water cannon and "sideswiped" a government vessel in the South China Sea.

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That's because some of the non-colliding positively charged protons are set swirling as the nuclei sideswipe one another at close to the speed of light.

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Early Tuesday, Bryan Howard, 41, crossed the center line of State Road 40 in his 2001 Ford Ranger and sideswiped a bus carrying 53 farmworkers, which then veered the bus of the two-lane road.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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