shotgun
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Herbert dropped back into shotgun and sent Tre’ Harris in motion from right to left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
"You start with a pistol, and then you get a shotgun, then you get a machine gun," Cregger explained.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Now, Carney was accelerating Canada’s pivot to Europe, matchmaking a shotgun marriage to offset the pain of its divorce with America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Much of the format is expected to stay the same in any new LIV - a shotgun start, team competition, music blaring from speakers and party holes.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Owen found the orange box of shells and held it open as George reloaded the shotgun.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Manufacturing still accounts for 15% of the city’s employment, thanks to smaller companies that make everything from airplane parts to shotguns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Licensing, registration and storage of shotguns were also tightened up but handguns remained legal.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
BBC News Persian's investigation confirms the extensive use of shotguns.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
By the time the couple split in 2021, he had become a gun enthusiast with about 25 rifles, pistols and shotguns, Angelica Ochoa said.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
Sheriff Robinson, he found some shotguns in a closet, and sniffed them to see if they had been fired recently.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
And then he shotgunned a can of water.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2018
Embarked on an eight-day tour of ten states starting in the Dakotas, he shotgunned Johnson Administration policies from the battlefields of Viet Nam to the wheat fields of the plains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Conference on Trade and Development, 75 underdeveloped nations squared off against 29 industrialized nations, which had been shotgunned into the meeting in the first place.
From Time Magazine Archive
Up to now chemists have regarded such compounds as indifferent to one another, capable at best of being shotgunned into chemical matrimony by violent stimulants, high temperatures and great pressures.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cookbook lies facedown in her path like a shotgunned bird.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Ithaca Model 4E This single-barrel trap gun was the last survivor of the Golden Age of shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
In essence, shotgunning amounts to putting DNA into a chemical Cuisinart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, many researchers considered shotgunning crude and inaccurate.
From Time Magazine Archive
But one of his new recruits, Hamilton Smith, a Nobelist from Johns Hopkins', proposed a bolder approach: "shotgunning" the entire genome of an organism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of assigning various segments of the genome to hundreds of scientists, as the Genome Project does, Venter plans to use what he calls whole-genome shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
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