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shoot back
verb as in answer
Strong matches
verb as in reply
Example Sentences
To get the highest jump, they need to do it once as they descend into the bowl, and then again as they shoot back up toward the sky.
While this seems like a positive reversal, it's worth noting that drug overdoses dropped between 2018 and 2019, only to shoot back up again during the COVID-19 pandemic, when a lot of people who use drugs were isolating.
A long delay by Congress in passing new funding for Ukraine meant its forces had to ration ammunition, and in some cases they were only able to shoot back once for every five or more times they were targeted by Russian forces.
"Better than everyone," she’d shoot back.
“Based on my experience in 37-plus years in the U.S. military, if one side can shoot and the other side can’t shoot back, the side that can’t shoot back loses.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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