The word scattershot has appeared in 46 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on July 2 in “‘The Bear’ and a Chaotic Vision of Work” by Melissa Kirsch:
Business leaders are resorting to desperate measures to entice workers back to the office, my colleague Emma Goldberg reported recently. “It’s been three years of scattershot plans for returning to in-person work — summoning people in, not really meaning it, everybody pretty much working wherever they pleased,” she wrote. “Now, for the umpteenth time, businesses are ready to get serious.”
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