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gunning

noun as in shooting

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Still, consider baseball’s final four: The Dodgers, the defending champions, gunning for their third title in six years.

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“I think all the games are going to be like this. Everyone is gunning for us.”

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Mangione is accused of gunning down Thompson on a busy Manhattan street in December last year.

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At first, George is ready to do anything to put down the labor stoppage, including gunning down his laborers.

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But, considering his big ambition for this World Championship year amid a period of relative consistency, he says he will "definitely be gunning for a medal" should he make the final in Tokyo.

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

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