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This summer, when the company reported improved earnings and a brighter outlook for the rest of 2026, shares shot up 35%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Nolan shot the entire three-hour movie on 70mm film, a large, high-resolution format designed for giant Imax screens.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
The detective’s Facebook friends urged her to make her post public, so she did — screenshots of Salute’s court records, her mug shot and her new school photo.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
The site defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four victims are shot.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
“You shot yourself in your own rear end.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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"The wind is changing so much, it's really the fire calling the shots," a firefighter said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
While David McBrien delivered a nerve-settling score for Mayo, the high-pressing Westerners kicked a succession of shots short during the opening quarter as they favoured low-percentage efforts in a bid to ramp up scoreboard pressure.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
When launching InterPositive, Affleck said he wanted to keep “storytelling human” by building AI tools that could fix lighting, generate missing shots and other things while “keeping creative decisions in the hands of artists.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
I’m not just trying to take cheap shots at either company.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
According to the pamphlet from the vet, Yom and Your Pet Living with Diabetes, the top three treatments were blood-sugar testing, insulin shots, and changing their diet.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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“Keep your guns shotted and your powder dry!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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Its business, however, was to establish a wall of steel and shotted guns between these forces and the German battle fleet at Kiel.
From The Victory At Sea by Hendrick, Burton J.
When this was accomplished, the Kearsarge was turned shortly round and steered immediately for the Alabama, Captain Winslow desiring to get within close range, as his guns were shotted with five-seconds shell.
From An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864 by Edge, Frederick Milnes
In an inlet to the northward Vane met Blackbeard, and saluted him, according to piratical etiquette, with a discharge of his shotted guns.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
The guns of the fort were shotted, like those of the Dardanelles.
From Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 by Auldjo, John
“Maybe I should stop drop shotting and start winning,” Melzer said with a laugh.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2010
When bass are near a weedy bottom, Lillegard favors vertical jigging or drop shotting above the vegetation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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An' so the singing an' shotting go on.
From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Jekyll, Walter
If a hunting-habit be properly cut it will require no shotting, which will be an advantage to your horse in diminishing the weight which he would otherwise have to carry.
From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Lambert, Nannie
Rifles should always be cleaned from the breach, thus avoiding possible injury to the rifling at the muzzle, which would affect the shotting adversely.
From Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917 to be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by Department, U. S. War