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Post-Tribune, 7 July 2017
Outing highlights include: Registration, lunch and a putting contest (noon)
Shotgun start (1:30 p.m.)
Dinner (6:30 p.m.)
Proximities, skins, awards and a 50/50 raffle
Sponsorship opportunities are still available for the event.
—Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
Vem Miller, 49, was stopped by deputies assigned to Trump’s rally at a checkpoint in the Coachella Valley, and found to be carrying a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine, authorities said.
—Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2024
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Adjective
Lunch and registration begin at 11 a.m., with a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start.
—Post-Tribune, 7 July 2017
Outing highlights include: Registration, lunch and a putting contest (noon)
Shotgun start (1:30 p.m.)
Dinner (6:30 p.m.)
Proximities, skins, awards and a 50/50 raffle
Sponsorship opportunities are still available for the event.
—Megan Becka, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
Noun
No, according to trolls on the internet, Walz inelegantly un-loaded his shotgun shells.
—Tribune News Service, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
Vem Miller, 49, was stopped by deputies assigned to Trump’s rally at a checkpoint in the Coachella Valley, and found to be carrying a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine, authorities said.
—Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shotgun
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Should that musket misfire, don’t look for the cleric.Rob Wieland, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
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The town's population grew in the 1820s as a result of the lead mining boom, where the mine became one of the most productive in the region, manufacturing the musket balls used in the Civil War, according to the city's website.Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 3 Sep. 2024
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There are even a couple of scattershot dance numbers.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024
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Some of that retooling is obvious in the final cut of the movie, which has a slightly scattershot, sometimes thin screenplay and a close-to-even ratio between jokes that land and jokes that whiff badly.Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2024
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Colman is Edith Swan, a middle-aged church lady who still lives with her blunderbuss of a father (Timothy Spall) and mild-mannered mother (Gemma Jones) in a working-class neighborhood of Littlehampton.Ty Burr, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2024
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The State Department, in its blunderbuss way, wanted to open up a kind of détente with the citizens of Communist Eastern Europe.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Mar. 2023
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The defense contends the June 2022 shooting was accidental.Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 6 Nov. 2024
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Since Prince died from an accidental fentanyl overdose in 2016, Tyka and her half-siblings had been engaged in a yearslong legal disagreement over the handling of the seven-time Grammy winner’s estate.Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 5 Nov. 2024
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The teenager was also arrested for being a minor in possession of a firearm.Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
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Young Thug, one of six defendants standing trial, is also charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of codeine with intent to distribute, possession of cocaine, possession of a firearm, and possession of a machine gun.Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2024
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According to the website of California Secretary of State Shirly Weber, who is responsible for overseeing elections in the Golden State, the ballot order is determined by letters being selected at random.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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Motive for shooting unknown Police are investigating whether the victims were random or known to the suspect.Paradise Afshar, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
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The pistol is one of several weapons found in Allen’s home in 2022, prosecutors said.Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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The sergeant was sitting in his patrol car working on his laptop, when a gunman, identified later as 40-year-old Andy Morales, rolled up to the sergeant’s car and fired .223 rounds from an AR pistol at the sergeant before driving off.Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
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The contact was inadvertent, and Green ended up on the hardwood, but Green got called for a foul.Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 23 Oct. 2024
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The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the state's failure to produce a key piece of evidence to the defense at the original trial, even if inadvertent, violated the law.Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Shotgun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shotgun. Accessed 12 Nov. 2024.
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