shot
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The Saudi-led military coalition said it had shot down two ballistic missiles Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The person who was shot is conscious and at a hospital.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The last military execution by firing squad took place in January 1945, when a young US Army deserter, Eddie Slovik, was shot during the final months of the World War Two.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, a UC San Francisco infectious-disease expert, said people should aim to get the shot ideally before mid-October.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Once they shot a reindeer, only to find that they’d hit a log.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Close-up shots of him face-to-face with Holmes have ricocheted across social media and already become the stuff of meme gold.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Long shots losing 98% of the time dominate Kalshi and Polymarket trading.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Health officials say vaccination is the best form of protection against the flu and are urging people to get their shots soon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Studios increasingly turn to cheaper alternatives for less demanding shots to keep costs down, the experts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The two shots had not gone off simultaneously.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
“Keep your guns shotted and your powder dry!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
It was singing its death song, for, with the noise of a shotted gun, and a wreath of smoke, it gave way, and out plunged the brig into the rushing current of the tempest-tossed ice.
From North-Pole Voyages by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
Within the week that followed, the broad views of many a Southern statesman were manifest in the shotted guns trained on Sumter.
From From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days by Charles King
Its business, however, was to establish a wall of steel and shotted guns between these forces and the German battle fleet at Kiel.
From The Victory At Sea by Burton J. Hendrick
In an inlet to the northward Vane met Blackbeard, and saluted him, according to piratical etiquette, with a discharge of his shotted guns.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
“Maybe I should stop drop shotting and start winning,” Melzer said with a laugh.
From New York Times ● May 27, 2010
When bass are near a weedy bottom, Lillegard favors vertical jigging or drop shotting above the vegetation.
From Time Magazine Archive
An' so the singing an' shotting go on.
From Jamaican Song and Story Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes by Walter Jekyll
Not being able to aggravate us into shotting our guns, what must he turn to and do but load with stone—and look at that flag!
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
If a hunting-habit be properly cut it will require no shotting, which will be an advantage to your horse in diminishing the weight which he would otherwise have to carry.
From Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes by Nannie Lambert
