Definition of scattershot
:broadly and often randomly inclusive :shotgun
- scattershot advice
- scattershot planning
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All of that points to an alarming lack of efficiency, and that starts with Bortles’s scattershot right arm.
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Google’s scattershot messaging strategy has one less problem.
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Moonrise felt scattershot, so here are some similar takeaways: Baltimore’s TT the Artist kicked the Lunar Stage off Saturday with a crowd-moving performance that featured members of the local TSU Dance Crew and Mighty Mark as DJ.
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Sometimes having different collaborators on almost every track can lead to a scattershot record, but that's not a problem on The Spectrum, which is tightly integrated.
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The result is a scattershot amalgam of songs, some complete, some fragments, some intercut with others from the same show or different ones.
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Even spots that take a scattershot approach to menu development, like Gemini and Ella Elli, are devoting significantly more inches on the page to plant matter.
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There was no help from Odubel Herrera, who trudged through another scattershot game.
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So far, the attacks on Mueller’s credibility have been scattershot and seemingly freelance: Trump’s nasty tweets, Sean Hannity’s nightly diatribes.
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First Known Use of scattershot
1951
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