single-shot
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of single-shot
An Americanism dating back to 1885–90
Example Sentences
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The team's top single-shot electron pressure measurement so far is 830 MPa.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2025
From its 15-year-old star to its risky single-shot direction and unsettlingly resonant themes, the limited series “Adolescence” was as close to perfection as a piece of television gets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2025
Singh said the single-shot technique "can feel like a gimmick" but that the acting is "phenomenal".
From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2025
Soderbergh’s camera moves slowly enough for the viewer to forget that they’re an active part of his film, letting each long, single-shot take wander as it would if we were surveying the house ourselves.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025
“He responded, rather vaguely, with some small notions about highspeed rotating mirrors, chopping the tails off quanta and other single-shot ideas,” Tuve would recall.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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