shotgun
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On a third-and-one play against the Las Vegas Raiders, for instance, the shotgun snap caromed off the knee of receiver Tre’ Harris, who was running closely behind the line from right to left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
Asked about what drone defenses he had, one of the soldiers said he should soon be issued with a shotgun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Herbert dropped back into shotgun and sent Tre’ Harris in motion from right to left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Ecclestone added he had already taken his shotgun from England to Switzerland and said he anticipated no problems as the airport officials know him "very well".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Even the fact that it was a shotgun wedding didn’t spoil the day for her.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Pellet guns are shotguns designed for bird hunting.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
When authorities searched Michael Abatti’s properties, they took possession of more than three dozen firearms including more than two dozen rifles, as well as shotguns, pistols and revolvers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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
They had the judges, the juries, the shotguns, the law—in a word, power.
From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin
And then he shotgunned a can of water.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2018
One man, shotgunned into marriage, had to be discharged because he developed a severe case of ulcerative colitis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Conference on Trade and Development, 75 underdeveloped nations squared off against 29 industrialized nations, which had been shotgunned into the meeting in the first place.
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
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
Instead of assigning various segments of the genome to hundreds of scientists, as the Genome Project does, Venter plans to use what he calls whole-genome shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I was shotgunning from one city to the next," recalls the 36-year- old native of Peoria, Illinois.
From Time Magazine Archive
Drawing a bead is a phrase that should be purged from the language of shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Venter is using a faster but more risky method he calls "whole genome shotgunning."
From Time Magazine Archive
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