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  • n  a glancing blow from or on the side of something (especially motor vehicles)
  • v  strike from the side

  • With that, Bush managed to simultaneously sideswipe already fuming environmentalists and let the timber industry know that he may not be quite the ally they had initially hoped.
  • The Republicans took another sideswipe at Dukakis' patriotism last week when Idaho Senator Steve Symms told a radio interviewer that Kitty Dukakis had been photographed "burning an .
  • His anger was directed not only at the Sunni, Sadrist and secular blocks in parliament, which have formed a loose coalition to oppose the SOFA; he also took an unrelated sideswipe .
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  • John Turner in Toronto Star
    We're certainly seeing a lot of mines that were in development being stopped and mines that were in production are being put on care and maintenance,Turner said. "Part of that was just a sideswipe from the liquidity credit crisis, but part...
  • Kate Hudson in People Magazine
    There's a guy that's shooting probably 60 frames a minute,Hudson, 30, tells Harper's Bazaar for its January issue, out Dec. 15. "That was a sideswipe on the cheek. That wasn't even a kiss. I quickly kissed the cheek. And I remember one of...
  • Beck in New Zealand Herald
    As a result of this information in Sideswipe, Kiwanis have sent two shipping containers this year filled with books, clothes, desks, chairs and tools to needy schools in Vanuatu,writes Ewan Beck. "Kiwanis wishes to thank Sideswipe and the...

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