shotgun
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Much of the format is expected to stay the same in any new LIV - a shotgun start, team competition, music blaring from speakers and party holes.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Chargers’ offense will undoubtedly be different under McDaniel — Herbert’s new shotgun stance is proof of that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
I’d been invited to ride shotgun in various hot cars before but declined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
Dorr was inspired by his wife, Nell, a renowned photographer, who was tired of riding shotgun and craning her neck out the window to see where the asphalt ended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
Ida keeps casting furtive glances in the vicinity of Bill and his shotgun.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
Pellet guns are shotguns designed for bird hunting.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Officials seized several pistols, rifles, shotguns, ammunition, tactical gear, as well as electronics, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
The 1988 Firearms Amendment Act banned the ownership of semi-automatic and pump-action rifles, weapons which fire explosive ammunition and short shotguns with magazines.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
Today, its pistols, shotguns and other weaponry are used by militaries and hobbyists around the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
Behind me are Bob and Bill, each on a horse of his own, their shotguns slung across their saddles.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
And then he shotgunned a can of water.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2018
Embarked on an eight-day tour of ten states starting in the Dakotas, he shotgunned Johnson Administration policies from the battlefields of Viet Nam to the wheat fields of the plains.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lot of people were on the side of Captain America and his fringed partner Billy, shotgunned off their glittering, raked choppers on a Southern back road.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up to now chemists have regarded such compounds as indifferent to one another, capable at best of being shotgunned into chemical matrimony by violent stimulants, high temperatures and great pressures.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cookbook lies facedown in her path like a shotgunned bird.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
At the time, Venter was using a technique called shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Parker There is magic to that one word: It's shorthand for the Golden Age of American shotgunning, or simply for the finest American shotgun.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ithaca Model 4E This single-barrel trap gun was the last survivor of the Golden Age of shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Venter admits that whole-genome shotgunning will leave gaps in the sequence where segments can't be fitted perfectly.
From Time Magazine Archive
In essence, shotgunning amounts to putting DNA into a chemical Cuisinart.
From Time Magazine Archive
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