shotgun
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On a third-and-one play against the Las Vegas Raiders, for instance, the shotgun snap caromed off the knee of receiver Tre’ Harris, who was running closely behind the line from right to left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
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
A man with a bamboo rake pulls shotgun shells into piles.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
The first - from the start of November - covers types of handguns, shotguns and rifles.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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
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
BBC News Persian's investigation confirms the extensive use of shotguns.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
Men still tucking their nightshirts into hastily pulled-on overalls hurried down the road, a couple of them carrying shotguns.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
And then he shotgunned a can of water.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2018
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
One man, shotgunned into marriage, had to be discharged because he developed a severe case of ulcerative colitis.
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
Venter admits that whole-genome shotgunning will leave gaps in the sequence where segments can't be fitted perfectly.
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
"I was shotgunning from one city to the next," recalls the 36-year- old native of Peoria, Illinois.
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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