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
The Dunlap broadside was a broadside in a figurative sense as well as a literal one, blasting its message like cannons fired from the side of a warship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
There was no immediate reaction to the broadside from Downing Street, where aides insist Sir Keir has acted in the British national interest, with a sense of where British public opinion is.
From BBC ● Mar. 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
You want a sea that will put on a good show when your lifeboat is broadside to it, though without capsizing your boat.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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
“Yeah,” Mr. Macron mumbled, before being broadsided by a bunch of other questions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 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
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
