shotgun
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He wouldn’t have had the 6-foot-6, 240-pound Herbert line up in shotgun and call for motion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Herbert dropped back into shotgun and sent Tre’ Harris in motion from right to left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026
Now, Carney was accelerating Canada’s pivot to Europe, matchmaking a shotgun marriage to offset the pain of its divorce with America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has denied being arrested at an airport in Portugal after arriving with a shotgun he intended to use in a clay pigeon shooting competition.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
To say it was a shotgun wedding would not be inaccurate.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
Manufacturing still accounts for 15% of the city’s employment, thanks to smaller companies that make everything from airplane parts to shotguns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 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
Licensing, registration and storage of shotguns were also tightened up but handguns remained legal.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
Ford’s Hardware Store on the corner of River and Granville streets ran out of ammunition and shotguns an hour after the store was opened.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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
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
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
A cookbook lies facedown in her path like a shotgunned bird.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
In essence, shotgunning amounts to putting DNA into a chemical Cuisinart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Venter is using a faster but more risky method he calls "whole genome shotgunning."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Still, many researchers considered shotgunning crude and inaccurate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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