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With that corner of the movie business increasingly squeezed, he calls a film like “Pickpocket,” shot in just 25 days, “kind of a little miracle.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
He thought he might have had a shot for “Quiz Show,” though he didn’t put in the effort to campaign.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Shares in SpaceX shot up nearly five percent in after-hours trading following the comments.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
During the “Berghain” remix, Rosalía’s dancers drop to the floor as if shot by a sniper, going down one by one with each thunderous drum hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
Selkie twisted and shot up underneath, gliding Nim through the waves: thumping over, ducking under.
From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr
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A quote from hockey legend Wayne Gretzky hangs in her office: "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Citing South Korea's firing of warning shots, broadcasts from propaganda loudspeakers and what she called a "mine explosion farce", Kim said the incidents had "gone beyond the red line".
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
“We’ve taken some shots this year,” McVay said of the rash of injuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
They have only scored six, and their three attempted shots in Sunday's game – all off target - represented the lowest total for any team in a Premier League match this season.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Fiona pumped a couple of shots of hair gel into her hand and worked the blob into her wet hair.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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“Keep your guns shotted and your powder dry!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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Within the week that followed, the broad views of many a Southern statesman were manifest in the shotted guns trained on Sumter.
From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by Charles King
Its business, however, was to establish a wall of steel and shotted guns between these forces and the German battle fleet at Kiel.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
And I—I was in the place next the port-hole, and I mind me I could lay my hand on the muzzle of a shotted gun.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Here no shotted salute of gun awaits him, and he is aware that he is in a friendly country.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
“Maybe I should stop drop shotting and start winning,” Melzer said with a laugh.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2010
When bass are near a weedy bottom, Lillegard favors vertical jigging or drop shotting above the vegetation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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If a hunting-habit be properly cut it will require no shotting, which will be an advantage to your horse in diminishing the weight which he would otherwise have to carry.
From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert
You know my fun is a sort of fizz—there's nothing but a flash—nothing to hurt—no shotting.
From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms
Not being able to aggravate us into shotting our guns, what must he turn to and do but load with stone—and look at that flag!
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
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