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Recent Examples of scattershot
There’s something of a profit panic as the company tries to figure out how to make money from its scattershot AI enterprises, while Claude Code and Cowork from Anthropic emerged as the winners for enterprise AI spending.
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Elizabeth Lopatto,
The Verge,
29 Apr. 2026
Bondi’s scattershot compliance of that law drew outrage from victims.
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Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2026
His pocket awareness still needs work, though, and the occasional scattershot stretch pops up from time to time.
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Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
The team of Bob Mortimer, Aisling Bea, and Sally Phillips sang a song that playfully mocked Rosalind, but the team of Nish Kumar and Mark Watson—whose performances had been hilariously scattershot that season—delivered a sweet, self-effacing, and humorous song that took everyone by surprise.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 Apr. 2026
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Elizabeth Lopatto,
The Verge,
29 Apr. 2026
Bondi’s scattershot compliance of that law drew outrage from victims.
—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2026
His pocket awareness still needs work, though, and the occasional scattershot stretch pops up from time to time.
—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2026
The team of Bob Mortimer, Aisling Bea, and Sally Phillips sang a song that playfully mocked Rosalind, but the team of Nish Kumar and Mark Watson—whose performances had been hilariously scattershot that season—delivered a sweet, self-effacing, and humorous song that took everyone by surprise.
—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scattershot
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Promising young filmmakers, having cobbled together haphazard budgets for an Easy Rider or Bonnie and Clyde couldn’t find coherent support for new ideas.
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In the early 2000s, especially, Ashley favored haphazard updos, with layers falling from the sides, as seen at the spring 2005 Marc Jacobs show in New York.
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Luka Dončić got traded at midnight on a random Saturday in February.
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Pinned to their random assortment of hats were scrawled, handmade signs proclaiming liberty or death.
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If your data is messy, scattered or stale, the AI output fails.
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At Mariposa Market in Willits, grocery items, wine bottles and other merchandise tumbled from shelves, leaving aisles littered with broken glass and scattered products.
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Psychologists who study cognitive ability and thinking styles have found that certain forms of restlessness aren’t incidental to a sharp mind.
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These were not incidental flourishes.
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Fire departments have also partnered with the APA to hand out buckets so consumer fireworks users can douse used fireworks, reducing the risk of accidental fires.
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While many may have had one as children, the inception of the toy was accidental.
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Only a few minutes earlier, Abulaila endured an inadvertent slap to his throat by Arnautovic on a pass into the box.
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However, after Monday's inadvertent alarm, the office is looking at that policy.
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The only other competitors were the Anglo-French Concorde and the sporadic Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 program.
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Redevelopment in downtown Miami and the accidental discovery of the mysterious Miami Circle in 1998 have ushered in a quarter-century of sporadic but remarkable archaeological revelations.
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Liam, once aimless and unhoused, quickly finds purpose in the charade as a husband and father.
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The book is structured as a quest to figure out why a class of aimless young men in late-Thatcherist Blighty get their kicks out of getting paralytically drunk and bashing one another half to death every weekend.
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“Scattershot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scattershot. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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