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as in to ridicule
to make (someone or something) the object of unkind laughter
nowadays the aging activist is routinely shot down in most quarters of the media and dismissed as an irrelevant crank
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as in to dismiss
to reject by or as if by a vote
every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members
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as in to refute
to prove to be false
the results of several studies shoot down the hypothesis that coffee causes heart attacks
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Recent Examples of shoot down
Russian authorities did not immediately close Chechen airspace, the source said, adding that this decision may have been negligent but does not appear to prove any intent by Russia to shoot down the incoming Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft.
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David Brennan, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2024
Poland, for example, has stated its willingness to shoot down Russian missiles and drones that get near Polish territory and to defend certain parts of Ukrainian airspace to create safe zones in western sections of the country.
—Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 31 Dec. 2024
Ukraine shot down 63 of the drones and another 46 failed to strike a target, the military said.
—Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2025
Maybe the helicopters can shoot at the drones with impunity, but maybe they themselves will be shot down.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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David Brennan, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2024
Poland, for example, has stated its willingness to shoot down Russian missiles and drones that get near Polish territory and to defend certain parts of Ukrainian airspace to create safe zones in western sections of the country.
—Alina Polyakova, Foreign Affairs, 31 Dec. 2024
Ukraine shot down 63 of the drones and another 46 failed to strike a target, the military said.
—Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 1 Jan. 2025
Maybe the helicopters can shoot at the drones with impunity, but maybe they themselves will be shot down.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Apart from Musk’s most loyal sycophants, the build was almost universally ridiculed as the work of a complete novice.Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
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McCollum’s play and his team’s start to the season have been frequently ridiculed, but nights like this are what build the bond between a player and a city.William Guillory, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
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To have the charge dismissed, a person must first plead guilty or no contest, agree to a treatment plan and then successfully complete that program.Stephen Hobbs, Sacramento Bee, 13 Jan. 2025
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Moments after dismissing the Denver Broncos 31-7 from the opening playoff round Sunday, the Bills already had the Baltimore Ravens on their minds.Tim Graham, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
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Lori Robertson, director of the nonpartisan website FactCheck.org, which also partnered with Meta, also refuted Zuckerberg's notion that fact-checking contributed to a suppression of opinion.Kate Gibson, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2025
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In 2011, his former Minister of Justice directly refuted the previous statements, claiming that Gaddafi directly ordered the bombing.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
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Former President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump, who have mocked each other for years going back to Trump‘s fanning of conspiracy theories about Obama’s citizenship, sat next to each other Thursday and talked for several minutes, even sharing a laugh.Bill Barrow and Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Hogan briefly appeared to promote his Real American Beer brand and was instantly and overwhelmingly booed and mocked by the enormous crowd at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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Those winds have fanned wildfires into destructive infernos across Los Angeles, killing at least 11 and displacing tens of thousands this week.Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2025
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The medical examiner's office says five of those deaths were in the Palisades Fire, while 11 people were killed in the Eaton Fire.Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2025
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One sketch, vetoed by the network, had Tomlin playing a prim mother, Mrs. Beasley, calling her son in from the back yard, which was actually a war zone, ablaze with exploding mortar shells.Susan Morrison, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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One effort in Nevada, which passed the Legislature but was vetoed by Gov. Joe Lombardo, proposed capping the number of units a corporation could buy in a calendar year.Benjamin Oreskes, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Anti-natalists, however, refuse to equate children with a stake in the future.Jack Jiang, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2025
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Colonists refused to buy British products leading up to the Revolution, and when the British tried to bring in tea against their wishes ...Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Travelers also need to negative COVID-19 test within one day of flying to return to the United States.Dallas News, Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2022
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Regardless, the outcome of this trial might not impact the ex-couple’s career prospects in all that negative a way, Engelmayer predicted.Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 26 May 2022
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“Shoot down.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoot%20down. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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