jumped the gun
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So much so that the state senator from San Francisco jumped the gun this fall, entering the race to fill the former House speaker’s seat in Congress before she announced her retirement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Law firms that jumped the gun in using AI to write legal documents have been apologizing for the predictable errors.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2025
Andrew Tate in the Miss Goodman Real Estate jumped the gun before battling Peabody in the final.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 30, 2023
President Biden memorably jumped the gun on Barack Obama in endorsing same-sex marriage more than a decade ago, but at a June fund-raiser near San Francisco, he couldn’t recall the letters L.G.B.T.Q.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2023
The Fair Play settlers had not "jumped the gun" on independence, although they participated in the movement.
From The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography by George D. Wolf
