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potshot

noun as in slam

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Witness Donald Trump recently questioning the racial identity of his opponent, Kamala Harris, a race-baiting potshot that dredges up ingrained prejudices against biracial Americans that stretch back to the antebellum South.

Those potshots elicited a heavy eye roll from Riley’s new quarterback, Miller Moss.

Trump’s team was more meandering and given to stray potshots, missing more than they hit.

“But the editorializing — the excessive, unnecessary commentary about an uncharged individual — felt like political potshots.”

That gun became a symbol of the attack when he was captured on video with it, roaming the balustrade of the Arts Faculty and taking potshots at passers-by, injuring several.

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

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