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  • verb Present participle of sideswipe.

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Examples

  • You want something to take care of your personal-mobility demands without sideswiping your ego/libido.

    2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon: Room for reality 2011

  • The driver lost control of the car and swerved into another lane, sideswiping a minibus.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • Anthony Marx , president of the New York Public Library, was arrested Nov. 6 after sideswiping a city street-sweeping vehicle in East Harlem with a silver 2009 Audi A4, city and law enforcement officials said.

    Librarians at the Wheel Jennifer Maloney 2011

  • The driver lost control of the car and swerved into another lane, sideswiping a minibus.

    Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011

  • Obama was sideswiping President Bush almost daily, but Bush took it in stride.

    THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

  • Obama was sideswiping President Bush almost daily, but Bush took it in stride.

    THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010

  • "There will be no talking during the Synchronized Swimming exercises", bellows one of her queenships, getting me square in the jaw, and sideswiping Alice with her scepter.

    Synchronized Swimming with Alice in Wonderland 2010

  • A car was driving recklessly on the highway, cutting in and out of traffic and nearly sideswiping me.

    Locke Rush: Ground Zero -- The True Jihad 2010

  • Sudden sideswiping gusts caught us off-guard and sent us toppling into snow too deep to climb back out.

    Vitamins 2010

  • And after nearly sideswiping them, it accelerated.

    The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

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