potshot
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Payton wasn’t aiming another potshot at his predecessor, however, just expressing his disdain for players who don the hats on the sideline after their day is done.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
No one took a potshot or fired a missile at Biden.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2023
Many have soured on him and Meghan since the rupture with the royal family; they viewed Harry’s latest comment as just another potshot.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
But he then takes a potshot at Lee’s most important contribution — Spider-Man’s motto “With great power there must also come great responsibility” — by suggesting Lee cribbed it from Churchill or FDR.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2021
Strauss simmered through most of the presentation but erupted when Rabi took a potshot at the illusory concept of a “clean” bomb.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Once again, Lane Kiffin proves he really is the guy we think he is, walking out the Alabama door while potshotting Nick Saban and the Tide program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2017
After six years of marriage and nearly five of potshotting between their armed camps, they braced for the showdown.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. "Picklepuss" Belcher leads some Cape Cod Minutewomen into action with rifles on behalf of Deputy Sheriff Asey Mayo, who isn't sure the girls aren't potshotting at him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead the marines concentrated their potshotting not on Hearst but on General MacArthur.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of his friends have been potshotting at him again.
From A Texas Ranger by William MacLeod Raine
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