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Recent Examples of scattershot
Greenland 2 mostly offers a cluster of scattershot ideas instead of any coherent vision of the postapocalypse.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
Trump spent the first half of 2025 roiling Mexico’s economy with scattershot demands.
—Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, Meta’s strategy remains scattershot, according to insiders and industry experts, feeding the perception that the company has fallen further behind its top AI rivals, whose models are rapidly gaining adoption in the consumer and enterprise markets.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2025
The episode is fairly scattershot, telling 25 or 30 stories in superficial terms, when telling four or five with real depth — perhaps the four or five that haven’t been addressed in major motion pictures — might have been better.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Nov. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
Trump spent the first half of 2025 roiling Mexico’s economy with scattershot demands.
—Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
As 2025 comes to a close, Meta’s strategy remains scattershot, according to insiders and industry experts, feeding the perception that the company has fallen further behind its top AI rivals, whose models are rapidly gaining adoption in the consumer and enterprise markets.
—Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2025
The episode is fairly scattershot, telling 25 or 30 stories in superficial terms, when telling four or five with real depth — perhaps the four or five that haven’t been addressed in major motion pictures — might have been better.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 20 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scattershot
Adjective
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The result is a haphazard vision for a future that the Bulls still haven’t fully fleshed out.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026
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Cheung has also documented the haphazard quality of the operation, as in one photograph showing a gun magazine left in the snow after agents departed from a scene.—
Emily Witt,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Instead, a suitcase and a random assortment of clothes disappeared along with her.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
5 Feb. 2026
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PlayStation consoles rely on a type of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, chips, which are in short supply as demand from artificial intelligence and data center operators increases.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
5 Feb. 2026
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His scattered family, like so many others, reflects the extraordinary exodus of almost 8 million Venezuelans — regarded as the largest-ever displacement of people in the Americas.—
Mery Mogollon,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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More scattered sleet, snow and ice are expected for the afternoon, before widespread precipitation is predicted to return Saturday night.—
Julia James,
Dallas Morning News,
24 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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But Snyder ruled that these problems were incidental to the work of enforcing the country’s immigration laws.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Yet, incidental captures of these sharks still occur through passive fishing gear, which shows that even remote deep-sea habitats/animals are not entirely safe from human influence.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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These pressures are not accidental.—
Steve Hershey,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Feb. 2026
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Why This Moment Matters The timing of this shift isn’t accidental.—
Kelly Ehlers,
Rolling Stone,
10 Feb. 2026
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There was nothing at all inadvertent about its disappearance.—
Eugene Robinson,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
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Kevin Durant swatted it against the backboard, and then there was an inadvertent whistle during a scramble for the loose ball.—
Zach Harper,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2026
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During Galliano’s tenure, Maison Margiela shows were sporadic.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
10 Feb. 2026
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However, sporadic light supplementation means that adjusting fertilizer use is sensible if plant growth slows.—
Gemma Johnstone,
The Spruce,
8 Feb. 2026
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The film, which shows an aimless day in the life of Austin, showcases some of its more eccentric characters.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Feb. 2026
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Any shred of free time is too easy to fill with more work, more worrying, more commitments, and, of course, more aimless scrolling.—
Bekah Waalkes,
The Atlantic,
3 Feb. 2026
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“Scattershot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scattershot. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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