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Of the 1,000 or so men that still remain, I have gotten into non-verbal arguments with about 100 of them on the freeway; rear-ended three and half of them at major intersections; side-swiped a couple dozen of them on side streets; and nearly ran down two of them as they biked across the crosswalk.
Ilana Ross: My Sort of True Love Affair With a Really Very Cool and Famous Person Ilana Ross 2011
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Yesterday morning I nearly got side-swiped by a woman who was texting while merging onto I-5 traffic at 60mph.
Texting while driving = drinking and driving (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Of the 1,000 or so men that still remain, I have gotten into non-verbal arguments with about 100 of them on the freeway; rear-ended three and half of them at major intersections; side-swiped a couple dozen of them on side streets; and nearly ran down two of them as they biked across the crosswalk.
Ilana Ross: My Sort of True Love Affair With a Really Very Cool and Famous Person Ilana Ross 2011
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Each time you pass a cigarette shop, or get side-swiped by someone else's smoke, tell yourself that you'll buy a cigarette at the next shop.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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The taxi ride took her through a labyrinth of steep an winding streets, some of them so narrow that Vanessa thought they would get side-swiped or scrape up against a curb.
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The taxi ride took her through a labyrinth of steep an winding streets, some of them so narrow that Vanessa thought they would get side-swiped or scrape up against a curb.
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But first I gave chase to the car that side-swiped these two other cars onDurant Avenue.
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In Egypt Sunday, eight American tourists died and at least 20 others were injured when their tour bus side-swiped a truck filled with sand on the road from Aswan to Abu Simbel in the south of the country.
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In Egypt Sunday, eight American tourists died and at least 20 others were injured when their tour bus side-swiped a truck filled with sand on the road from Aswan to Abu Simbel in the south of the country.
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Just the other day, I came out of the gym and someone had side-swiped my car on the passenger side, leaving no contact information.
Dr. Cara Barker: "What Bernie Madoff, Victimization, and Elie Wiesel Have to Teach Us" 2009
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