POTSHOTS Synonyms: 76 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of potshot

as in attacks

to criticize harshly and usually publicly ended the show with an extended rant in which he potshot an array of personages on the right

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noun

plural of potshot

as in salvos

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Verb

The degenerative disease attacks the motor neurons of the brain and spinal cords.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2026
The advertisement, which was released last week, attacks Vang over her attendance record at the meetings of local government bodies including the Sacramento Regional Transit District and Sacramento Transportation Authority.

— Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of attacks

Noun

These recent actions, while ominous, are only the latest salvoes.

— James Robenalt, Vanity Fair, 27 July 2026
However, strikes were reported as far north as Semnan, just east of Tehran and home to a ballistic missile complex, pointing to a broader range of locations than in previous salvoes.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Definition of salvos

Verb

There are currently more than 85,000 customers without power across the Northeast, including New York City and Connecticut, as an intensifying early-season nor’easter slams the region with strong wind, soaking rain and coastal flooding.

— Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026
Not thunder, not cobwebs, not a door that slams itself for union reasons.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of slams

Noun

If access to divorce has removed the net from our tennis game, for the one percent, the proceedings have turned into Sincaraz-level volleys.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2026
The problem with one of them — the coming forward — is that Shelton’s volleys and touch shots are still raw and under-developed.

— Ava Wallace, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2026

Definition of volleys

Noun

In Kyiv, for example, residents used to face a few drone and missile barrages a week—disruptive, but not enough to stop city residents from going about their lives.

— Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
Stunned at first by his opponent’s aggressiveness and the onslaught of personal attacks, Ted trains himself to withstand the barrages and to respond in kind.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of barrages

Noun

Every stentorian chord became a hammer blow, flourishes intensified into fusillades, a tense pause into an apocalypse.

— Justin Davidson, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026
As Ukraine marked another year of independence, Vladimir Putin responded with one of the worst fusillades of missiles since his unprovoked full-scale war of aggression began over three years ago.

— Oleksandra Matviichuk, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025

Definition of fusillades

Noun

People living near the frontlines have faced constant bombardments and the imminent threat of occupation, whereas those in the rear can, at times, tune out the conflict.

— Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
Meanwhile, escalating bombardments by Russia and Ukraine — which together account for a quarter of the global wheat supply — on each other’s shipping infrastructure are piling pressure on food prices.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of bombardments

Noun

But more appealing to me were the smaller bursts of creativity.

— Tony Perrottet, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Nobody is more confident working with the Kings than Colter, whose swagger and comfort with bursts of goofiness are well-deployed, albeit with less emotional range in the early-going.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

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