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shot

noun as in discharge; ammunition

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It involves a comparison of the respective jump shots of Joakim Noah and Ray Allen; if you’ve ever seen the two players shoot, you’ll understand that Mr. Allen’s is the big-ticket item.

She begins with an account of Hamilton’s death and funeral but declines to describe the 1804 duel in which Burr alone may have shot to kill.

Fans wanted those stories preserved as closely to the ways they imagined them while reading the novels; those adaptations were the single shot at bringing the story to life.

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He produced candid, often impish shots of the rockers on stage and off.

There were the lurches, waves of the gloves and points of the bat - that will never change - but a false shot percentage of 49% was his personal record high.

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

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