shotgun
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Occasionally, a new tool or technique comes along that widens this to a shotgun: aim at a few closely related problems and hope that you hit one.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026
He took a shotgun and additional guns out of his parents’ gun safe, according to dispatch records.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
"We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant's Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer," Pirro said.
From Barron's ● May 3, 2026
It now has a large collection of restored shotgun houses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
Everything they had except for the shotgun and the parkas on their backs had just sunk to the bottom of the lake.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
Beretta Holding houses more than 20 international brands, producing assault and sniper rifles, grenade launchers and the intricately engraved shotguns of historic British producer Holland & Holland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
When authorities searched Michael Abatti’s properties, they took possession of more than three dozen firearms including more than two dozen rifles, as well as shotguns, pistols and revolvers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
The 1988 Firearms Amendment Act banned the ownership of semi-automatic and pump-action rifles, weapons which fire explosive ammunition and short shotguns with magazines.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
On a recent visit, workers assembled shotguns and manufactured pistol and rifle barrels amid the searing sound of metal being cut.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026
“Yes, sir. General Pettigrew claims he saw them yesterday afternoon. General Hill says he was, ah, overeager. General Hill says he expects no opposition but perhaps some local militia, with shotguns and such.”
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
And then he shotgunned a can of water.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2018
One man, shotgunned into marriage, had to be discharged because he developed a severe case of ulcerative colitis.
From Time Magazine Archive
A lot of people were on the side of Captain America and his fringed partner Billy, shotgunned off their glittering, raked choppers on a Southern back road.
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
Other labs were now in the shotgunning game--though of the 30 or so organisms decoded to date, two-thirds were decoded by TIGR, with results that are generally acknowledged to be of high quality.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I was shotgunning from one city to the next," recalls the 36-year- old native of Peoria, Illinois.
From Time Magazine Archive
In essence, shotgunning amounts to putting DNA into a chemical Cuisinart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ithaca Model 4E This single-barrel trap gun was the last survivor of the Golden Age of shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Drawing a bead is a phrase that should be purged from the language of shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
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