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Definition

Find faults.

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In Context

  • "Anytime you want to shoot holes in our ideas, don't hesitate to do so."
  • "One by one, we can shoot holes through possible standards by which the Commission on Qualifications could evaluate nominees for the trial courts."
  • "Many of the works in this exhibition also shoot holes in our conventional assumptions about family portraiture."
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