shoot
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Shoot themselves in the foot in a manner that suggested if "the fun boat" hit some choppy waters ahead, it would still sail triumphantly into port at the end of the season.
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026
Sir Elton's previous number one albums span six decades, starting with 1973's Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2025
In 1900, Los Angeles was home to one of the first major American takes on a water ride, Shoot the Chutes at Chutes Park in Historic South-Central.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2024
He served as a writer and executive producer on such shows as “American Dad” and “Just Shoot Me!” and created the 2019 ABC series “Whiskey Cavalier.”
From Salon • Feb. 16, 2024
Shoot, I be forgetting she got horns,” Ralphie says.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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