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Definition of scattershot
: broadly and often randomly inclusive : shotgun scattershot advice scattershot planning
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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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USA TODAY Friday’s press conference only worsened this wound with its scattershot objective.
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USA TODAY Friday’s press conference only worsened this wound with its scattershot objective.
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Fortunately, Sedaris—whose new book, Theft by Finding, is a collection of his hilariously scattershot diary entries from 1977 to 2002—knows an expert: his longtime partner, Hugh Hamrick.
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Security at sporting events and museums remains scattershot, experts say.
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Security at sporting events and museums remains scattershot, experts say.
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First Known Use of scattershot
1951
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