shooting gallery
noun
1
: a usually covered range equipped with targets for practice with firearms
2
slang
: a place where one can obtain narcotics and shoot up
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Earth still lives inside a shooting gallery, with thousands of objects—totaling about 48.5 tons per year, according to NASA—entering the atmosphere.
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 June 2025
But even as their city becomes a shooting gallery, many local Ukrainians are refusing to leave.
—Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2025
The Ghostbusters shooting gallery attraction takes place in the team's firehouse headquarters (of course) and nearby is one of the most Instagrammable restaurants of any theme park worldwide.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Under this plan, if China attempted to invade Taiwan, the U.S. Navy would deploy thousands of unmanned surface vessels, undersea vessels, and aircraft to turn the Taiwan Strait into a shooting gallery, buying time for the U.S. fleet to mobilize.
—Sebastian Elbaum, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2024
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Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 June 2025
But even as their city becomes a shooting gallery, many local Ukrainians are refusing to leave.
—Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2025
The Ghostbusters shooting gallery attraction takes place in the team's firehouse headquarters (of course) and nearby is one of the most Instagrammable restaurants of any theme park worldwide.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
Under this plan, if China attempted to invade Taiwan, the U.S. Navy would deploy thousands of unmanned surface vessels, undersea vessels, and aircraft to turn the Taiwan Strait into a shooting gallery, buying time for the U.S. fleet to mobilize.
—Sebastian Elbaum, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Shooting gallery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shooting%20gallery. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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