to take a potshot at
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Potshot
Synonyms for "potshot" (87 found)
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Bannister leaped up, ran lightly across the intervening space, and with his repeater took a potshot at the galloping horseman.
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He takes his share of potshots (mostly at the Da Vinci surgical robot), but the conscience of the film is in the stories of Essure, a procedure marketed to women as a hassle-free alternative to tubal ligation
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And until recently, anyone could read his Facebook posts, which included vulgar potshots at Nancy Pelosi and her husband and a pronouncement that supporters of Joseph R. Biden Jr. suffered from a “mental affliction.”
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