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scat⋅ter⋅shot

[skat-er-shot]
–adjective
delivered over a wide area and at random; generalized and indiscriminate: a scattershot attack on the proposed program.

Origin:
1960–65; adj. use of scatter shot
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scat·ter·shot   (skāt'ər-shŏt')   
adj.  Covering a wide range in a random way; indiscriminate: "his habit of scattershot comment on whatever issue catches his eye" (Howell Raines).
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