Common collocations
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- Chaingun: The Imperial Heavy Repeater—while not in minigun form, its rapid-fire spray of hot metal, inaccurate at long range but unstoppable at short-to-mid-range, makes this trope apply.
- I will also apply for self-defense course and keep a pepper spray on me.
- But it's still a rifle, not an SMG or a shotgun, and it is sufficiently accurate when you know how to use it (i.e., aim down the sights, squeeze the trigger, apply basic shooting technique, adjust the sights, zero your sights, not spray it on full auto; anything one would do with any other rifle).
Source: Never Live It Down / Real Life
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Spray and Apply. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/apply/spray
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Spray or Apply. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/apply/spray.
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