shotgun
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Haynes took the shotgun snap at the 10 and dropped back to the 14 before shooting up the middle, pump faking around the seven and diving into the end zone for the game-winning score.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
She left shortly after, and was planning to move back to northern Scotland - but instead the pair conducted a "shotgun wedding".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Dorr was inspired by his wife, Nell, a renowned photographer, who was tired of riding shotgun and craning her neck out the window to see where the asphalt ended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
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 had no phone or flares or air horn, no bear spray or shotgun and cracker shells.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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
Market hunters used shotguns, nets and traps to fill traincars with passenger pigeons—as well as robins, woodpeckers, blackbirds and orioles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 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
Several of Capricorn’s men ran the butts of their shotguns along the silvery gray bars before sitting down on the benches that had been made ready for them.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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
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 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
A cookbook lies facedown in her path like a shotgunned bird.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
In essence, shotgunning amounts to putting DNA into a chemical Cuisinart.
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
Parker There is magic to that one word: It's shorthand for the Golden Age of American shotgunning, or simply for the finest American shotgun.
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
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