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sideswipe

noun as in smash-up

verb as in crash

verb as in glance

verb as in hit

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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.

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.

The truck sideswiped the bus, causing it to veer off the road at about 6:40 a.m.

Around 8:37 a.m. a Peterbilt box truck sideswiped the parked van, causing the truck to lose control, said Rodrigo Jimenez, public information officer for the California Highway Patrol.

Vida ran alongside a black horse named Quaker that could be seen sideswiping a taxi as it turned into oncoming traffic after running through a red light at an intersection.

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

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