scattershot

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Recent Examples of scattershot Kennedy provided a scattershot series of thoughts on Thursday on everything from Covid-19 vaccines, anti-depressants, and hepatitis B. Philip Elliott, Time, 4 Sep. 2025 Comedy submissions offer a fascinating contrast between cohesion and a scattershot approach. Clayton Davis, Variety, 20 Aug. 2025 Details from the discussions emerged in a scattershot way that seemed to rankle the U.S. president, who had chosen not to outline any terms when appearing afterward with Putin. Sylvie Corbet, Twin Cities, 18 Aug. 2025 Still, scattershot laughs aside, Happy Gilmore 2’s efforts at silliness are overwhelmed by a sensibility that’s downright melancholic and overshadowed by death, and not just the impending one of the film industry. Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for scattershot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scattershot
Adjective
  • The Craftsman-style bungalow was originally built in the 1940s and withstood several haphazard additions and renovations before Haury and Saikami got their hands on it.
    Linne Halpern, Architectural Digest, 15 Oct. 2025
  • OpenAI’s messaging was haphazard to Hollywood.
    Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Only random film students might ask her about it.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • So random though, and never had both my phone and internet just flatline like that.
    James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Michigan residents are in for another seasonable week, with cooler temperatures and scattered rain, according to the National Weather Service.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • By comparison, campaign two felt more scattered and improvisational (befitting a D&D game).
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Gestures, colloquialisms, facial expressions, local cuisine, and the like are not incidental to a tongue but constitute it; sometimes, to capture a word or phrase, in writing or in an algorithm, is to stamp out its meaning.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Unlike nihilism, with which cosmicism shares some similarities, the focus is on how small and incidental humanity is.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • At the time, Anderson called it an accidental error.
    Lucas Robinson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The Americans started brightly and confidently, getting control in midfield and probing with intent, but chances were rare, with the first real effort somewhat accidental as Zavier Gozo’s cross from the left clipped the top of the bar.
    The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2019, in non-shotgun formations, Jackson had 19 drop-backs and combined with Ravens running backs for 27 carries, according to Sports Info Solutions.
    Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 3 June 2021
  • Lunch and registration begin at 11 a.m., with a 12:30 p.m. shotgun start.
    Post-Tribune, Post-Tribune, 7 July 2017
Adjective
  • Pally goes with the flow as well as anyone, which puts an interviewer at ease — as that’s when inadvertent insults can happen.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There’s concern among some Republicans that US soybean farmers, who compete with their Argentine peers to sell the crop to China, may be inadvertent victims of the rescue plan.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The album was Some Time in New York City on the cover, but Sometime in New York City on the label, their liner notes, and their letters, a hint of how slapdash the whole project was.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • All hail to the poetry slam, which schooled me in the art of living a flawed, slapdash life out loud for everyone to see.
    Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Scattershot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scattershot. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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