shoots down

present tense third-person singular of shoot down
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as in kills
to reject by or as if by a vote every one of my fund-raising ideas was shot down by the other club members

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Recent Examples of shoots down The powerful big tech lobby shoots down any law remotely alludes to testing and regulating AI machines. The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shoots down
Verb
  • Then there’s the loud kind, where the audience openly ridicules you.
    Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Wednesday ridicules Pugsley for making a zombie.
    Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The coach played five seasons of college volleyball at Central Florida, and led the nation in kills her senior season with 617.
    Andrew Cornelius, Twin Cities, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Once an animal gets sick, the disease moves through the brain, spine and eventually kills the animal.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Ex-contractor likens Gaza aid effort to 'The Hunger Games,' former employer refutes claims One meal a day.
    Gram Slattery, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • However, in a blog on the topic, the NPS refutes the idea that one park is more deadly than any other.
    Owen Clarke, Outside, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Student imitates Charlie Kirk's death and mocks him, goes up to statue where TPUSA members are and imitates his death again, and spits near them.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • YouTube's policies specifically prohibit content that revels in or mocks the death or serious injury of an identifiable individual.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As for the third criticism—that the point system is gamification, trivializing death and destruction—Prickly dismisses it out of hand.
    Tamar Jacoby, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The poem dismisses prevailing emphases on externals, stressing instead the formative powers of one’s inner being.
    Daniella Walsh, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • From start to finish, Larsson’s latest refuses to ever slow down, instead trafficking in high-energy dance-pop joy.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Lockwood, for one, refuses to sum her story up neatly.
    Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Yet an administrator vetoes the plan, and the meeting’s start is uncaffeinated.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In between questions about Nineties cultural touchstones like Friends, Space Jam, Beavis and Butthead, the Spice Girls, and Sir-Mix-A-Lot — during which Kravitz racks up a lot of points and Butler downs a lot of shots — the pair also discusses working on Caught Stealing.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2025

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