shotgun
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On a third-and-one play against the Las Vegas Raiders, for instance, the shotgun snap caromed off the knee of receiver Tre’ Harris, who was running closely behind the line from right to left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Now the company that made casual dressing cool in the ’90s is riding shotgun on another ’90s trend: the American boy band.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Justin Herbert looks comfortable in the system of new offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel, even with the retooled footwork in shotgun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Ecclestone added he had already taken his shotgun from England to Switzerland and said he anticipated no problems as the airport officials know him "very well".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
The cracker shell was designed to be louder than an actual shotgun shell, and Owen flinched at the sound.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
The 1988 Firearms Amendment Act banned the ownership of semi-automatic and pump-action rifles, weapons which fire explosive ammunition and short shotguns with magazines.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
On a recent visit, workers assembled shotguns and manufactured pistol and rifle barrels amid the searing sound of metal being cut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
BBC News Persian's investigation confirms the extensive use of shotguns.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns, Angelica Ochoa said.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
Cindy Sindy told me she wanted to keep the baby, so before any mention of shotguns, I’d already prepared to marry her.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
And then he shotgunned a can of water.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2018
Embarked on an eight-day tour of ten states starting in the Dakotas, he shotgunned Johnson Administration policies from the battlefields of Viet Nam to the wheat fields of the plains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Conference on Trade and Development, 75 underdeveloped nations squared off against 29 industrialized nations, which had been shotgunned into the meeting in the first place.
From Time Magazine Archive
One man, shotgunned into marriage, had to be discharged because he developed a severe case of ulcerative colitis.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cookbook lies facedown in her path like a shotgunned bird.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Parker There is magic to that one word: It's shorthand for the Golden Age of American shotgunning, or simply for the finest American shotgun.
From Time Magazine Archive
Venter is using a faster but more risky method he calls "whole genome shotgunning."
From Time Magazine Archive
Ithaca Model 4E This single-barrel trap gun was the last survivor of the Golden Age of shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other labs were now in the shotgunning game--though of the 30 or so organisms decoded to date, two-thirds were decoded by TIGR, with results that are generally acknowledged to be of high quality.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the time, Venter was using a technique called shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
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