scattershot
adjective
scat·ter·shot
ˈska-tər-ˌshät 
: broadly and often randomly inclusive : shotgun
scattershot advice
scattershot planning
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Trump spent the first half of 2025 roiling Mexico’s economy with scattershot demands.
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Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, Meta’s strategy remains scattershot, according to insiders and industry experts, feeding the perception that the company has fallen further behind its top AI rivals, whose models are rapidly gaining adoption in the consumer and enterprise markets.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 9 Dec. 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
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Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, Meta’s strategy remains scattershot, according to insiders and industry experts, feeding the perception that the company has fallen further behind its top AI rivals, whose models are rapidly gaining adoption in the consumer and enterprise markets.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 9 Dec. 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
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“Scattershot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scattershot. Accessed 28 Dec. 2025.
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