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the shrapnel
noun
An anti-personnel artillery shell used in WWI which carries a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejects them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
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You get the shrapnel.
The wall absorbed the shrapnel.
The shrapnel temporarily blinded him.
The coroner immediately found the shrapnel.
The shrapnel burns through his mother's torso.
"That's where the shrapnel struck my skull.
"The shrapnel had cut my innominate vein.
It exploded into his head, the shrapnel still there.
They weren't going to be taking the shrapnel out.
The shrapnel had hit in the flesh of his eyebrow.
Zubair required surgery to remove the shrapnel from his leg.
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