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Recent Examples of scattershot
These ideas make for a solid foundation, even though the movie is often scattershot.
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
Another source remained adamant that, for a team such as the Bears, the scattershot approach to this search must allow allow ample time for a second round of interviews in which at least four and up to six finalists are given in-person opportunities to meet.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
In the hands of influencers, they are fired at our timelines in a scattershot approach to attract a morsel of attention.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
The effort, while scattershot, effectively ran out the clock.
—Ben Protess, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
Another source remained adamant that, for a team such as the Bears, the scattershot approach to this search must allow allow ample time for a second round of interviews in which at least four and up to six finalists are given in-person opportunities to meet.
—Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2025
In the hands of influencers, they are fired at our timelines in a scattershot approach to attract a morsel of attention.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
The effort, while scattershot, effectively ran out the clock.
—Ben Protess, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scattershot
Adjective
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Marta González de la Rubia, an archivist at Loewe who gave me a tour of the facility, told me that in the company’s early decades the retention of samples had been haphazard, and that this was especially true with the company’s packaging.—
Rebecca Mead,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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The vibrations felt more haphazard, with less granular effects, but loud shots were still met with strong motor bumps.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
15 Mar. 2025
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Cherry rues the random nature of these instances of trauma, which explode only to be forgotten five minutes later, subsumed beneath the next crisis.—
Sam Worley,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2025
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Choosing a random cabin location Choose your cabin location with careful consideration and a strategic approach.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes,
18 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Both seem incidental to his 47% Hard Hits for the past five years.—
Gene McCaffrey,
The Athletic,
11 Mar. 2025
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Anyone finding themselves attracted to him was otherwise incidental.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The review found that many of the deaths reported to VAERS claiming to be linked to the MMR included children who has serious underlying medical conditions or had deaths that were unrelated to the vaccine, including accidental deaths.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
14 Mar. 2025
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Drinking alcohol is bad in many ways; raising a glass can raise your risks of various health problems, such as accidental injuries, liver diseases, high blood pressure, and several types of cancers.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
12 Mar. 2025
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Last season, Jackson went under center on just five drop-backs, while the Ravens’ primary ball-carriers had just 24 carries in non-shotgun looks.—
Jonas Shaffer,
baltimoresun.com,
3 June 2021
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In 2019, in non-shotgun formations, Jackson had 19 drop-backs and combined with Ravens running backs for 27 carries, according to Sports Info Solutions.—
Jonas Shaffer,
baltimoresun.com,
3 June 2021
Adjective
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In addition to the inadvertent possibility, there is also the act by a user that explicitly tells generative AI to promote a particular addiction.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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Some systems rely on very old programming languages, Flick said in her affidavit, and are vulnerable to being broken by inadvertent user error.—
Emily Peck,
Axios,
13 Mar. 2025
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Mad About the Boy, an adaptation of the slapdash third novel that starts streaming on Peacock on February 13, keeps the trope-laden structure, but finds surprising depth in a devastating plot twist.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025
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The seemingly slapdash document to overhaul the nation’s spending priorities created confusion throughout the federal government.—
Eric Cortellessa,
TIME,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Peoples Gas has been onsite multiple times over the winter and identified the boiler exhaust flue as a potential source of the sporadic smell, district officials said.—
Nell Salzman,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2025
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Local media did sporadic stories about the local flooding, but there were endless reports about Western NC, including from national news outlets.—
Théoden Janes,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Scattershot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scattershot. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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