a shot

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as in per capita
for each one At one ticket a shot, it's hard not to indulge in a few carnival rides.

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Recent Examples of a shot Instead, his new Egyptian colleague cut inside from the edge of the box and blazed a shot wildly over the bar. Elias Burke, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026 Still, costs need to fall further if geothermal has a shot at being competitive with other forms of power generation. Pippa Stevens, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026 Castro then fired a shot through the front door while standing as the men began to close it, hitting Sosa-Celis in the leg, the indictment says. Valerie Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Jensen parked Sandy Alcantara’s slider over the right-field wall, a shot measured at 440 feet. Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026 Perhaps most curiously in this trailer is a shot of two adults sprinting across a bridge that lights up in a romantic, fairy tale sort of way. Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026 Performances alternated between two stages—Marigold and Dandelion—without overlap, in theory giving all forty-five thousand attendees a shot at laying eyes and/or ears on every set. Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026 There’s also a shot of Zayas posing with his son, David Zayas Jr. Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2026 Depending on age, people can choose a shot from Moderna, Pfizer, or the only non-mRNA version from Novavax and Sanofi. ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026

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“A shot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/a%20shot. Accessed 8 Sep. 2026.

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