"both-sides" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "both-sidesing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "both-sidesed",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "both-sidesed",
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        "past"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2019, Deember 30, Greg Sargent, \"Explosive New Revelations Just Weakened Trump's Impeachment Defense\", The Washington Post Plum Line blog.\n\"McConnell badly needs the media's both-sidesing instincts to hold firm against the brute facts of the situation.\""
        },
        {
          "text": "2020, February 4, \"Lisa Murkowski Sick of All the Corruption, Will Vote to Let It Continue\", Wonkette.\n\"Once she'd adequately both-sidesed Congress and Tump, she fell back to more comfortable Republican talking points […] \""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 2, Arwa Mahdawi, “Jokes about Paul Pelosi aren’t just in bad taste. They normalize political violence”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "It’s certainly true that there are unhinged people across the political spectrum and politicians from both sides have been targeted for violence. However, “both-sidesing” this issue is dangerously dishonest.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To engage in bothsidesism, to treat a policy debate or controversy as a conflict between two equally valid (or equally dangerous, etc) viewpoints."
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        "(derogatory) To engage in bothsidesism, to treat a policy debate or controversy as a conflict between two equally valid (or equally dangerous, etc) viewpoints."
      ],
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        "derogatory"
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "both-sidesing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "both-sidesed",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "both-sidesed",
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        "past"
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          "text": "2019, Deember 30, Greg Sargent, \"Explosive New Revelations Just Weakened Trump's Impeachment Defense\", The Washington Post Plum Line blog.\n\"McConnell badly needs the media's both-sidesing instincts to hold firm against the brute facts of the situation.\""
        },
        {
          "text": "2020, February 4, \"Lisa Murkowski Sick of All the Corruption, Will Vote to Let It Continue\", Wonkette.\n\"Once she'd adequately both-sidesed Congress and Tump, she fell back to more comfortable Republican talking points […] \""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 November 2, Arwa Mahdawi, “Jokes about Paul Pelosi aren’t just in bad taste. They normalize political violence”, in The Guardian",
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