shots

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Many current vaccines, including seasonal flu shots and updated COVID-19 vaccines, are designed around virus strains already circulating in people.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

He was the top scorer for the Spurs but only scored six of his 21 shots from the field.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

Never mind that Brunson had attempted 29 shots and missed 19 of them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

Pratt’s solutions may be moon shots untethered to statistical reality.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

This pamphlet appeared in 1775, a few months before the first shots in the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis