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As a mother, she wrote in her second book, “most of the time I shot from the hip, making it up as I went along.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

“But to exercise my discretion properly, I’m not going to shoot from the hip right here on the bench,” Ho said on Wednesday.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025

Mr King, 63, said he had met McFarland several months ago to discuss Fyre II but he feared his former business partner hadn't "learned a lot in prison... he's shooting from the hip again".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024

These tended to be wide-ranging and opinionated; he shot from the hip.

From New York Times ● May 20, 2023

The white, twisted bone angled out oddly from the hip.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers




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