scattershot
adjective
scat·ter·shot
ˈska-tər-ˌshät 
: broadly and often randomly inclusive : shotgun
scattershot advice
scattershot planning
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Americans have to pay higher prices on goods and deal with suboptimal supply chains in order to somehow fulfill the president’s scattershot approach to centrally planning the U.S. economy?
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Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 21 Nov. 2025
The episode is fairly scattershot, telling 25 or 30 stories in superficial terms, when telling four or five with real depth — perhaps the four or five that haven’t been addressed in major motion pictures — might have been better.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Nov. 2025
But a scattershot approach won’t deliver transformative impact.
—Goutam Challagalla, Harvard Business Review, 14 Nov. 2025
For the better part of the 2010s, Twitter struggled to balance a desire for free-speech maximalism with scattershot attempts to quell harassment on the platform.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
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Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 21 Nov. 2025
The episode is fairly scattershot, telling 25 or 30 stories in superficial terms, when telling four or five with real depth — perhaps the four or five that haven’t been addressed in major motion pictures — might have been better.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Nov. 2025
But a scattershot approach won’t deliver transformative impact.
—Goutam Challagalla, Harvard Business Review, 14 Nov. 2025
For the better part of the 2010s, Twitter struggled to balance a desire for free-speech maximalism with scattershot attempts to quell harassment on the platform.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Scattershot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scattershot. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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