shot
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Remember this likely isn’t your only shot to get hired at a frontier lab or highflying tech company, says Aline Lerner, CEO of Interviewing.io, a tech-recruiting marketplace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Raman shot back, saying she had alerted the mayor’s office about the nuisance property 10 months earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
And on the very first hole, Stark conjured the shot of the competition so far, her approach to the green on the par four dropping straight into the cup for an eagle.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Her groundstrokes come in like major-league sliders and every shot seems to end up kissing a line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Pixies shot out and pelted toward me like a thousand tiny arrows, pink and blue and red and orange sparks, their teeth bared for war.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
Evercore ISI analyst Kutgun Maral said the promotions from T-Mobile and AT&T appear to be “targeted escalation,” rather than the first shots fired in a price war.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
“My work is predominantly Latinos — that we’re queer is part of that,” said the 62-year-old, who also snapped moody shots of patrons, often lovers, inside the bathroom stalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
He only had eight fewer shots but his conversion rate of 13.2% was inferior to Watkins' of 19.1%.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
That includes $1,000 a quarter on doggy daycare and $300 on annual vet shots, even with pet insurance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“But insulin shots and weekly blood-sugar testing and prescription food, it all costs a lot. And there’s no guarantee he’ll get better.”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
“Keep your guns shotted and your powder dry!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
The guns of the fort were shotted, like those of the Dardanelles.
From Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 by John Auldjo
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
Out ran one of the latter's port guns, shotted.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
Off toward the east dawn trembled on the edge of eternity and sent up, as if the earth were lighting the horizon, a pearlish light shotted with pink.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Fannie Hurst
“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
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
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
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
