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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shotgunned
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Six people were on board the plane, including one person who was killed in the incident, police said.
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Days before the five-year anniversary of the 2021 building collapse that killed 98 people in Surfside, the federal government has published findings that determined the structure of the Champlain Towers South condominium started failing about three weeks before the catastrophe.
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The pandemic, in combination with soaring beef prices, had decimated barbecue joints that once peppered the East Bay.
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Most of the match was played in Saudi Arabia’s half of the field during the second half, as the Uruguayan attackers peppered Saudi Arabia’s defense with shots.
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The second inferno killed 12 people, destroyed 6,500 structures across the Palisades and Malibu and cost billions in damage and insurance claims.
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In Paradise, California, a community destroyed by wildfire adopted the ‘Wildfire Prepared Home Standard’ as its mandatory rebuilding benchmark.
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An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun and swung by Earth last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, astronomers said Monday.
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Some celebrity children went to their parents' own Ivy alma maters — like Conan O'Brien's son, who went to Harvard University — while others blazed their own academic paths to institutions like Brown, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and Yale.
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Police officers created a homicide scenario where they were dispatched to the area of 35th Avenue and Jefferson Street for reports of a fight with multiple subjects and shots fired.
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The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office Rapid Deployment Force and the Broward Sheriff’s Office Quick Response team are both able to be dispatched if necessary.
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“Shotgunned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shotgunned. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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