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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
broadside .
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Examples
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U.S. 60 bypass and "broadsided" Danhauer's vehicle, who was westbound on the bypass.
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This is not a broadsided criticism of current policy.
Christopher Sabatini: As Latin America Changes Will the U.S. Policy Debate?
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Mr. Berlusconi was broadsided by a wave of criticism on Friday when the weekly magazine L'Espresso reported that Mr. Lavitola called Mr. Berlusconi from Bulgaria on Aug. 24, seeking advice on how to respond to the investigation.
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LOS ANGELES — Authorities are considering charges for three boys suspected of being in a car that ran a red light, struck and killed a pedestrian and broadsided a school bus.
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I went still hunting and this buck walked 20 yards in front of me broadsided.
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This is not a broadsided criticism of current policy.
Christopher Sabatini: As Latin America Changes Will the U.S. Policy Debate?
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He reached for the door, but the window hit his knuckles hard; it forced his arm back and left him to be broadsided by the door—right in the balls.
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He reached for the door, but the window hit his knuckles hard; it forced his arm back and left him to be broadsided by the door—right in the balls.
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The shares nose-dived in the following years, as Russia was broadsided by the worst recession in more than a decade, and the shares haven't reached their offering price since.
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He reached for the door, but the window hit his knuckles hard; it forced his arm back and left him to be broadsided by the door—right in the balls.
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