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shotgunning

  • present participle
    of shotgun.
    shotgun
    noun
    a smoothbore gun for firing small shot to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.

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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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Drawing a bead is a phrase that should be purged from the language of shotgunning.

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But one of his new recruits, Hamilton Smith, a Nobelist from Johns Hopkins', proposed a bolder approach: "shotgunning" the entire genome of an organism.

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Still, many researchers considered shotgunning crude and inaccurate.

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Venter is using a faster but more risky method he calls "whole genome shotgunning."

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