shotgun marriage
Example Sentences
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No matter what happens during the rest of the season, the forced, frantic shotgun marriage between Bronny James and the Lakers has been a blissful success.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2025
Their union, hardly a shotgun marriage, makes sense conceptually.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2023
The shotgun marriage to its fallen rival at the behest of Swiss authorities - the first-ever merger of two global systemically important banks - has created both opportunities and risks for UBS.
From Reuters • Aug. 31, 2023
Still, he acknowledged that the combined entity’s potential importance within Switzerland was “another question,” saying he reacted to the banks’ shotgun marriage, announced on prime-time TV, as if watching “a bad soap opera.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2023
The screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and the director David Fincher seemed, at first, like an odd pairing — a shotgun marriage of florid dialogue to a moody, sensual visual style.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2022
