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shoot through

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verb

  1. informal (intr, adverb) to leave; depart

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He added this was not an infection which would "shoot through the population", it was "not Covid", and he expected the outbreak to die out in the coming days.

From BBC Mar. 18, 2026

After he landed, Diaz felt pain shoot through his foot.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2025

But one structural engineer told me that the greater risk in most facilities is horizontal, not vertical—not that a vehicle would fall through the floor, but that it would shoot through a barrier.

From Slate Jan. 7, 2025

Monika Mitchell was the director for one of them, and she did a location shoot through my house.

From Salon Dec. 20, 2024

The crowd cheers and whistles, and a million little lightning bolts shoot through my body.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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