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shotgun wedding

noun as in marriage of necessity

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The midnight announcement by the leaders of both parties was made in sombre tones and had the air of a shotgun wedding.

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Taiwan's two main opposition parties appeared to be on the brink of announcing their shotgun wedding - the leader of one would run for president in January's election; the leader of the other would be his running mate.

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The “Shotgun Wedding” star, 50, and Miss World America pageant queen, 29, announced they were expecting their first baby together in a joint Instagram post on Monday.

Instead, what modern viewers mostly get are pale, labored imitations — the frenetic Jennifer Lopez-Josh Duhamel caper “Shotgun Wedding,” the hollow-core Ana de Armas-Chris Evans vehicle “Ghosted.”

He departed the comedy “Shotgun Wedding” that he was shooting with Jennifer Lopez, left the Paramount+ series “The Offer,” about the making of “The Godfather,” and was dropped by his agency, WME.

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

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