shotgun
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Asked about what drone defenses he had, one of the soldiers said he should soon be issued with a shotgun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
Justin Herbert looks comfortable in the system of new offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel, even with the retooled footwork in shotgun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 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
Riding shotgun in Ricky’s Crown Vic, bad radio blaring.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
The first - from the start of November - covers types of handguns, shotguns and rifles.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Soldiers there recently showcased Italian shotguns newly purchased for drone defense and flew first-person drones into defensive nets to show their effectiveness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Licensing, registration and storage of shotguns were also tightened up but handguns remained legal.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 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
A week later he was back with six barefoot and ragged soldiers, armed with shotguns, and an oxcart in which his wife and seven daughters were traveling.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And then he shotgunned a can of water.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2018
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
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
A cookbook lies facedown in her path like a shotgunned bird.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
In essence, shotgunning amounts to putting DNA into a chemical Cuisinart.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the time, Venter was using a technique called shotgunning.
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
Drawing a bead is a phrase that should be purged from the language of shotgunning.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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