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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
Ted Nguyen, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
These blocks are the everyday New Orleans, full of historic churches and sunny shotgun homes, storm-bent palms, and independent bakeries.
—Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025
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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
That would’ve ranked second in the NFL this season, but many college teams operate almost exclusively out of shotgun.
—Ted Nguyen, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
These blocks are the everyday New Orleans, full of historic churches and sunny shotgun homes, storm-bent palms, and independent bakeries.
—Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shotgun
Noun
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The musket ball was finally removed 17 years after Miller was wounded.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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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
Adjective
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A little of both, somehow, at once? Apple Cider Vinegar The Bottom Line Too scattershot to hit its mark.—
Angie Han,
The Hollywood Reporter,
5 Feb. 2025
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Not much, aside from rehashing the facts of the case in a lurid yet scattershot manner that has become typical of the shows that air on the streaming service.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state.—
Zac Anderson,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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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
Adjective
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As the largest startup offering cyber insurance and proactive monitoring tools with over 90,000 policyholders, Coalition insures against incidents like cyberattacks, email scams and accidental privacy violations.—
Jeff Kauflin,
Forbes,
18 Feb. 2025
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Tanya’s accidental drowning after getting sweet murderous vengeance on her con-men was an ending fit for the tragicomic heroine of a kind of Italian opera.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
17 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The Harlem rapper, 36, was recently found not guilty on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm in Los Angeles.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
22 Feb. 2025
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The rapper was charged with two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm against his former friend, Terell Ephron, known as A$AP Relli.—
Regina Cho,
VIBE.com,
21 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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While there are countless wormholes to be dragged into on a player’s Baseball Reference page, many of them can be pushed aside with the explanation that the reasoning for a level of success (or lack thereof) is due to the sample size making those results random.—
Tyler Small,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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In the early 20th century, physicists wanted to study Brownian motion, the random movement of particles in a liquid or gas.—
Solomon Adams,
WIRED,
23 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Investigators found 14 pistols, five rifles and a rocket launcher in those black and yellow crates.—
Keith Sharon,
USA TODAY,
20 Feb. 2025
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The defense argued that Relli initiated the altercation and Rocky's behavior was in self-defense, adding that the rapper's pistol was taken from a music video set and only fired blanks.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The plot follows the titular character’s inadvertent entanglement in a high-stakes espionage caper.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
13 Feb. 2025
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That was the Malachi Flynn team of 2019-20 that went 30-2 before the NCAA Tournament was scrapped because of the pandemic (and also had a 17-2 run when Nevada’s only basket was an inadvertent tip-in by an Aztecs player).—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Shotgun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shotgun. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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