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Jonas Shaffer,
baltimoresun.com,
3 June 2021
Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
30 June 2026
In the weeks since the show premiered, memes and unauthorized merch capturing Patricia’s dispassionate delivery, heroic shotgun wielding, and jerky dance moves have flooded the internet.
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Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Last season, Jackson went under center on just five drop-backs, while the Ravens’ primary ball-carriers had just 24 carries in non-shotgun looks.
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Jonas Shaffer,
baltimoresun.com,
3 June 2021
Noun
Enola fearlessly climbs to the top of the carriage while wearing her white wedding dress, aiming a shotgun at the menacing figure.
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Frank Scheck,
HollywoodReporter,
30 June 2026
In the weeks since the show premiered, memes and unauthorized merch capturing Patricia’s dispassionate delivery, heroic shotgun wielding, and jerky dance moves have flooded the internet.
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Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
29 June 2026
Verb
Westman had decorated the assault rifle and shotgun with hate speech in ways that aligned with the dark underbelly of alt-right meme culture that regularly disparages people of color, Jewish people, the LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities.
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Natalie Eilbert,
jsonline.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
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The two-bedroom duplex, Apartment 305-306, the aforementioned art studio, still has scattershot paint splatters on the floor and a library in the second room.
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And while towns in Clay, Platte and Johnson Counties have seen steady — if limited — growth, the bureau found, population figures in eastern Jackson County have been somewhat more scattershot.
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The first battle is a bloodbath, with the men picked off by musket fire almost at random.
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The new United States needed muskets, cannons, ammunition, uniforms, cloth, food and credit.
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And the Israeli army remains a few miles south, its presence marked by the occasional plume of smoke where its artillery hits, and the rip of machine-gun fire.
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Armed guards patrolled federal buildings; machine-gun-toting snipers perched on rooftops.
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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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He has been charged with first-degree murder and felony firearm.
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Law enforcement later searched two locations in connection with the investigation into Hidrogo including a storage facility in Fort Worth where officers found 244 kilograms of meth with a purity level of 100 percent and more firearms.
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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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Trump would also stop treating the Europeans as enemies with his blunderbuss tariffs.
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Cost cutting ‘blunderbuss’ DOGE is part of a long line of presidential efforts to take an ax to the administrative state.
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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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“Shotgun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shotgun. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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