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  • past participle of shoot.
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shot

[shot] / ʃɒt /




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Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the shooting in an initial social media post, saying Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had shot a New Yorker while his child was in the vehicle.

From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026

A few days later, my results shot into my inbox.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

For the first time in 30 years, Evans was able to film close to Aberbargoed, Caerphilly county, where he grew up, as the drama was shot in Cardiff and Bridgend.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

“For people who are there, I’m telling people: ‘Get your flu shot ASAP,’” said Celine Gounder, an infectious-disease doctor and editor at large for public health at KFF Health News.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

She’d be about eleven, twelve, and she’d shot up over the summer.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

But most insistently, the interstitial visuals are cinematographer Szor’s night shots of apartment facades in modern Tel Aviv: citizens at rest with their loved ones, working out or eating in front of their televisions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

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

Jonah thought about all those times she’d given him her hand to squeeze when he was a little kid getting shots or that time he had to have sixteen stitches in his knee.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

“Keep your guns shotted and your powder dry!”

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

This grew more and more certain as the time glided on, and Roberts went so far as to assert that he could tell the difference between the unshotted and the shotted guns which followed.

From Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop by Harold Piffard

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

One hundred guns were shotted and trained upon the enemy's works from Fort H—l as a salute.

From Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton Terrill

The usual practice would have been to sew the body up in a shotted hammock and throw it overboard, but Kapitan von Riesser had another plan.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

“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

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

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

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




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