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[pot-shot] / ˈpɒtˌʃɒt /


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The potshot would have hit different had it come during Payton’s time as a Fox football analyst during his year’s sabbatical from coaching.

From Seattle Times Sep. 12, 2023

Payton wasn’t aiming another potshot at his predecessor, however, just expressing his disdain for players who don the hats on the sideline after their day is done.

From Washington Times Aug. 8, 2023

No one took a potshot or fired a missile at Biden.

From Washington Post Feb. 20, 2023

And yet this is no simple countercultural potshot; it’s a tender, even loving humanization of a canonic composer, just as allergy-prone as the rest of us.

From New York Times Jun. 30, 2020

Strauss simmered through most of the presentation but erupted when Rabi took a potshot at the illusory concept of a “clean” bomb.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Once again, Lane Kiffin proves he really is the guy we think he is, walking out the Alabama door while potshotting Nick Saban and the Tide program.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 6, 2017

National Chairman Leonard Hall, for Ike had no intention of lending the presidency to campaign potshotting.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead the marines concentrated their potshotting not on Hearst but on General MacArthur.

From Time Magazine Archive

After six years of marriage and nearly five of potshotting between their armed camps, they braced for the showdown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of his friends have been potshotting at him again.

From A Texas Ranger by William MacLeod Raine




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