SHOT AT Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

shot at

phrase

variants or shot for

past tense of shoot at

as in tried

to make an effort to do Let's shoot at a 6:30 arrival.

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Recent Examples of shot at All five appeared to have been shot at close range with a handgun. — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026 Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office issued the brief statement four months after Kohen Wiley was killed when an officer shot at a car that police said was fleeing from a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia. — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026 Nazem Saleh Shoman, another village council member, denied that account and said Hassan was shot at close range while carrying olive harvesting tools. — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026 In the 1999 version, starring Frances O’Connor as Fanny, Mansfield Park scenes were shot at Kirby Hall, an Elizabethan country house about an hour’s drive east of Birmingham. — Nicholas Derenzo, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 Five people are dead after they were found shot at a home in South Georgia, according to law enforcement. — Asia Simone Burns, AJC.com, 10 Oct. 2026 When Coppola came to film her daughter (who actually shot at the Palace of Versailles), Sofia remembered the documentarian immediately switching into filmmaker mode. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2026 The teen who was fatally shot at a south Fort Worth apartment complex Wednesday evening was planning to graduate from high school in May. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Oct. 2026 The original 80-minute doc, which was shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv and explores the killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, features revelatory interviews with 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026

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