Held
Sustained
Sustained adjective - Maintained at length without interruption or weakening.
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Held and sustained are semantically related in believed topic. You can use "Held" instead the word "Sustained" as an adjective or a verb.
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Officially this trope goes by the term spray and pray as any sustained automatic fire from a hand held weapon will require divine intervention to actually hit its target.
Source: A-Team Firing -
This is especially prevalent in "Dead Stop," which resolves the damage sustained in "Minefield," and the post-"Azati Prime" episodes of Season 3, in which Enterprise is blasted within an inch of its life by the Xindi and is barely held together for the rest of the season.
Source: Series / Star Trek: Enterprise
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