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shooting out

ADJECTIVE
prominent
Synonyms
STRONGEST
outstanding
WEAK
arresting beetling bulging easily seen embossed extended extrusive eye-catching flashy hanging out hilly in the foreground jutting marked noticeable obtrusive obvious projecting pronounced protruding protrusive protuberant raised relieved remarkable rough rugged salient signal standing out striking to the fore unmistakable
Antonyms
WEAK
depressed inconspicuous invisible obscure obscured ordinary sunken

Example Sentences

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Webb's high resolution suggests that this dark lane may be connected to an outburst or flow of material from the central star, a process often driven by twin jets shooting out in opposite directions.

From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026

The team used technology called LIDAR, which measures pollution in the atmosphere by shooting out lots of laser pulses and seeing which bounce back off something.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

Camera lenses on the creatures’ chests took photos of their surroundings, which were then churned through an artificial-intelligence filter before eventually shooting out from printers embedded in their hindquarters onto the fair floor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

At short ranges, shooting out nets to tangle up the drone is another method and cheap lasers are also being developed.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2025

Everything was coming out of me at once, climbing up through my throat and into my mouth and shooting out from behind my eyes.

From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña