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shot

noun as in try, chance

noun as in discharge; ammunition

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On the other, no one inside the Lakers locker room would dare compare the two, the first definitely still a novelty the Lakers would’ve happily traded, prize money and all, for even a long shot chance to win the big title in the spring.

Acosta shot 28-year-old Arthur “Billy” Boucher, a family friend who was asleep on a sofa in the living room.

Acosta then walked into the master bedroom and shot Goodwill-Yost.

Yost tried to escape to the house patio, but was shot in the head.

“Two little girls, 6 and 9, went to sleep not knowing the last time they would see their parents would be when they woke up to find them shot to death,” said Todd Spitzer, Orange County district attorney.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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