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shot

noun as in discharge; ammunition

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"That's when I shot off then," he added, referring to himself leaving the scene.

From BBC

People living near the prison in the southwestern city of Machala reported hearing explosions and shots in the early hours of Monday local time.

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Then, on the par three 17th — Mahan had to win this hole and the next to keep the U.S. hopes alive — Mahan chunked his second shot, a chip, short of the green.

An asylum seeker who was shot and killed after stabbing six people at a hotel had made threats 24 hours before the incident, a hearing has been told.

From BBC

The young artist, in an audacious shot across the art world bow, was engaged in a symbolic act of Oedipal homicide.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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