shot
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Yields shot back up today as stocks sank.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
This year SpaceX has secured billions of dollars’ worth of government business to build and launch military satellites, even after lawmakers made an extra push to give other contractors a shot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Galaxy goalkeeper reacted in time and deflected the shot with his right leg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
It's a movement that requires a massive shot of adrenaline.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Clare shot a vexed look toward the… well, the world in general, because he was not sure where exactly the Afterlife dwelled.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The shots did not hit the suspect, who dropped the object that was in his hand, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
In addition, Cassidy argued that the changes could turn two MMR shots into six individual injections — while requiring additional trips to the doctor’s office.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
This week, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced she too was beginning the process of freezing her eggs, documenting the daily mechanics of giving herself hormone shots on social media.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The shots were for the second round of freezing her eggs, a medical procedure that can give women more time to have children.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Although the Burr version of what occurred presents some problems of its own, it is more compatible with the agreed-upon timing of the shots.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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“Keep your guns shotted and your powder dry!”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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Out ran one of the latter's port guns, shotted.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
“If we go down, we’ll do it with the guns shotted and the band playing and the flag flying.”
From The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold by Spencer Davenport
The news was at once telegraphed to Charleston; and the gunners in the Confederate trenches shotted their guns, and awaited the appearance of the steamer.
From The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 by W. C. Jackson
And I—I was in the place next the port-hole, and I mind me I could lay my hand on the muzzle of a shotted gun.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
“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
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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 William Gilmore Simms
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
Rifles should always be cleaned from the breach, thus avoiding possible injury to the rifling at the muzzle, which would affect the shotting adversely.
From Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917 to be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by U. S. War Department