shotgun marriage

Now, Carney was accelerating Canada’s pivot to Europe, matchmaking a shotgun marriage to offset the pain of its divorce with America.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Their union, hardly a shotgun marriage, makes sense conceptually.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

Still, he acknowledged that the combined entity’s potential importance within Switzerland was “another question,” saying he reacted to the banks’ shotgun marriage, announced on prime-time TV, as if watching “a bad soap opera.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

While UBS shares were hammered in early trading on Monday after its shotgun marriage with troubled Credit Suisse following an intervention by Swiss authorities, the bank's shares pared most of the losses towards the close.

From Reuters ● Mar. 21, 2023

It’s not as if the shotgun marriage of art and industry that for decades decided what and whom we see onstage had produced an equitable, or even a sensible, result.

From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2020