broadsides

noun

plural of broadside
1
as in salvos

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2
as in invectives

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3
as in handbills

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for broadsides
  1. salvos
  2. invectives
  3. flyers
  4. volleys
  5. diatribes
  6. circulars
  7. barrages
  8. tirades
Noun
  • While effective in salvoes, limited quantities and launcher availability could constrain Ukraine’s operational use.
    — Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Definition of salvos
Noun
  • At one point, the crew shot a scene in which Whalen’s character joins a bar fight, shouting invectives at a hapless extra before pummelling him to the ground.
    — Chang Che, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Riley would have invented invectives.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of invectives
Noun
  • Dragonflies are the fastest fliers among insects and can change direction instantly or hover in place.
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
  • In response to the positive test, MPHD said crews are distributing educational flyers in the affected neighborhood, increasing mosquito trapping, monitoring standing water and applying larvicide where needed to help reduce mosquito populations.
    — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of flyers
Noun
  • Down a match point during the tiebreak, Williams showed a glimpse of her vintage game, using aces, serves and volleys and winning extended rallies to force a third set.
    — Amina Kilpatrick, NBC news, 30 June 2026
  • The 10 tracks of Ton Up are at once his briskest and heaviest yet, miniaturizing his trademark loops of Dillafied psychedelia into speaker-rattling sample snippets that bombard uptempo house beats in dizzying volleys.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026
Definition of volleys
Noun
  • Trump’s social media feed and rhetoric overflow with racist diatribes.
    — Laura Washington, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • Academics in particular knew the impact of his anti-college diatribes, demonizing of university professors, and literal targeting of them with Professor Watchlist.
    — Karen J. Leader, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Definition of diatribes
Noun
  • Similar circulars have been issued before, in anticipation of major storms and other natural events.
    — Ken Harbaugh, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The Tennessean looked at weekly circulars from more than a dozen stores, including Middle Tennessee staples like Aldi, Dollar General, BJ's Wholesale Club.
    — Gabrielle Chenault, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Dec. 2025
Definition of circulars
Noun
  • These strategic American missile defenses, in Israel and elsewhere in the region, significantly boosted Israeli defenses against Iranian barrages during that war.
    — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Once relying on its massive missile arsenal, advances in Israeli intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance have neutered its previous strategy of relying on simultaneous barrages of missiles to overwhelm Israeli missile defenses.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 24 June 2026
Definition of barrages
Noun
  • Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee once put it this way about why some golfer tirades add character while others are despised.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 19 June 2026
  • Lion was taken into custody early Saturday morning in the Palisades after what a neighbor described as antisemitic tirades.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
Definition of tirades
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