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Recent Examples of shotgun
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
Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2025
Their whirlwind romance culminates in a hasty shotgun wedding in Las Vegas.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 23 Dec. 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
However, multiple firearms and accessories were recovered from Thomson’s safe including two pistols, four rifles, one revolver, three shotguns, assorted ammunition and magazines, and parts for several others guns including AR-15s, authorities said.
—Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2025
Their whirlwind romance culminates in a hasty shotgun wedding in Las Vegas.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shotgun
Noun
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The Sassenach’s survival is an important development, given that Mrs. Fraser ended the previous episode with a musket ball in her liver and an alarming amount of her blood on the ground.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
6 Jan. 2025
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In recent decades, however, the military has also been polluting the home front, most notably with a toxic chemical never heard of in the era of muskets and drums: PFAS.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
25 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Another source remained adamant that, for a team such as the Bears, the scattershot approach to this search must allow allow ample time for a second round of interviews in which at least four and up to six finalists are given in-person opportunities to meet.—
Dan Wiederer,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Jan. 2025
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In the hands of influencers, they are fired at our timelines in a scattershot approach to attract a morsel of attention.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
21 Aug. 2024
Noun
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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
Adjective
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And while their first born, Luna takes after her cheeky mom (see her accidental recreation of Teigen's famous meme face), the other three — Miles, 6, Esti, 19 months and Wren, 14 months — are Legend's miniature twins.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
People.com,
25 Jan. 2025
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Key Background Musk has yet to elaborate on the gesture made Monday, though defenders such as the Anti-Defamation League have chalked up the action to being accidental or awkward as opposed to an intentional Nazi salute.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The outlet stated that officers didn't find a firearm, but did find the group discussions on the messaging platforms after searching through his digital devices.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Officers learned that three male suspects wearing masks and brandishing firearms broke into the residence and pointed a handgun at one of the two juveniles in the home, police said.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Go and read random slave narratives and get their experience of the time.—
David Marchese,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
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Oh, the third mode is a combination of both – sets of airbags inflate and deflate in seemingly random order – which has been perhaps my favorite setting.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Solis is facing charges of possession of marijuana with intent to sell, operating a drug factory, weapons in a motor vehicle, criminal possession of a pistol or revolver, criminal possession of ammunition, theft of a firearm and various motor vehicle violations.—
Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
16 Jan. 2025
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Firearms, explosive devices recovered amid investigation Jackson said the ATF completed traces for a semi-automatic 9mm pistol and semi-automatic rifle that were recovered from Jabbar.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA TODAY,
6 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Mike Pence's inadvertent attraction of a fly to his white hair during the 2020 vice presidential debate will forever be enshrined in the annals of veep satire.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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Giveaway Entities will not be responsible for typographical, printing or other inadvertent errors in these Official Rules or in other materials relating to the Giveaway.—
USA TODAY,
USA TODAY,
22 Jan. 2025
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“Shotgun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shotgun. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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