broadside
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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
In a London courtroom days earlier, Harry had marked the finale to another project: a legal broadside against British tabloid press tactics that he says contributed to his 2020 decision to flee the U.K.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 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
Mohamed Salah has been welcomed back from the Africa Cup of Nations with open arms due to a lack of firepower up front despite his public broadside towards Slot last month.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
The ship turned completely broadside and then it snagged again, caught on another spire from the deep.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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
I’ve had several close encounters of being broadsided by unaware, careless and selfish drivers.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022
Six weeks after the election, his wife, Neilia, and baby daughter were killed when a truck broadsided her car.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2022
On that day, investigators said a Volkswagen sedan was broadsided by a gray Kia and a Mercedes-Benz that appeared to be racing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2021
From the earliest moment that the dew would permit operations until the stooks stood eerie and indistinct in the thickening dusk the boys broadsided their two binders into the ranks of the standing grain.
From The Bail Jumper by Stead, Robert J. C.
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
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 Johnston, Charles Haven Ladd
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 Carlyle, Thomas
When the ships had swung apart, the broadsiding continued, increasingly to the advantage of the Serapis.
From Paul Jones by Hapgood, Hutchins
