shot
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After he was shot in Las Vegas on 7 September 1996, he became immortalised as a kind of martyr for the lifestyle he helped make famous.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Gilead had the reverse problem with its twice-a-year HIV shot, which it would never sell at American prices in the world’s poorest countries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Any material that cannot be shot in front of a live studio audience — because of limitations with sets, timing or special effects — is shot the day before the live taping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
More than 450 Ukrainian drones were also shot down by the Russian air defences overnight, Moscow said.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Her shoulder pressed against mine as we ran, and she shot me a knowing look out of the corner of her eye, her mouth set in a grim line.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
After all, El-Sayed recently had to plead with his backers not to take personal shots at Stevens and her accent online.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
They made it a game in the fourth with a 16-5 run but were too far back and it took just a couple of Valkyries shots to put the game out of reach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
These shots of concentrated caffeine are meant to be sipped, not sniffed, but one whiff of a ragingly popular one—bouquet de Dubble Bubble and wet sneakers—was enough to put me off them forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The bureaucratic, multistep process for bringing new shots to market used to be the uncontroversial stuff of trade publications and medical journals, not national news.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Our folks were wandering around the hotel somewhere and I was halfway through my last hundred shots when Annie started waving her hands around like crazy.
From "The Million Dollar Shot" by Dan Gutman
“Keep your guns shotted and your powder dry!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
It was three a. m., when the ram passed battery Worth, where a two hundred pound Parrot gun, all shotted and waiting her appearance, was located.
From In and Out of Rebel Prisons by Lieut. A.
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 Hendrick, Burton J.
The cannon was loaded, and heavily shotted and aimed.
From Hernando Cortez Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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 King, Charles
“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 Jekyll, Walter
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 Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)
You know my fun is a sort of fizz—there's nothing but a flash—nothing to hurt—no shotting.
From Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by Simms, William Gilmore
