shotgun
noun
shotgunning
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present participleof shotgun.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Parker There is magic to that one word: It's shorthand for the Golden Age of American shotgunning, or simply for the finest American shotgun.
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Other labs were now in the shotgunning game--though of the 30 or so organisms decoded to date, two-thirds were decoded by TIGR, with results that are generally acknowledged to be of high quality.
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Instead of assigning various segments of the genome to hundreds of scientists, as the Genome Project does, Venter plans to use what he calls whole-genome shotgunning.
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Ithaca Model 4E This single-barrel trap gun was the last survivor of the Golden Age of shotgunning.
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Still, many researchers considered shotgunning crude and inaccurate.
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