plural shootings
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: the act of shooting a gun
But shooting is many a man's choice, especially up at the great hunting clubs like Choctaw Bluff …—
Harriet de Rosišre
Harriet de Rosišre2
: an instance of gun violence directed toward a person or group of people
a drive-by shooting
mass shootings
… a clutch of outspoken student activists flipped the national script on school shootings in America.—Dahlia Lithwick
Dahlia Lithwick3
: the act of photographing or filming someone or something
A large fan specially designed to create the effect of wind during shooting.—Ira Konigsberg
Ira KonigsbergThat part of filmmaking that comes immediately after the shooting is completed …—Ira Konigsberg
Ira KonigsbergExamples of shooting in a Sentence
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Thirty shootings in the Cincinnati neighborhood were reported by this time in 2024.
—Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
Phoenix police officers were involved in a second shooting in just one day, this time near 16th Street and Buckeye Road, spokesperson Sgt.
—Julie Mendes, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
When Oxford High School was the site of mass shooting in 2021, her students wrote poems for students there.
—John Wisely, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Last month, in the wake of a mass shooting in Minneapolis that investigators say was carried out by a transgender woman, the Department of Justice began looking into ways to strip trans Americans of the right to bear arms.
—Grace Byron, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
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Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2025
Phoenix police officers were involved in a second shooting in just one day, this time near 16th Street and Buckeye Road, spokesperson Sgt.
—Julie Mendes, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
When Oxford High School was the site of mass shooting in 2021, her students wrote poems for students there.
—John Wisely, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Last month, in the wake of a mass shooting in Minneapolis that investigators say was carried out by a transgender woman, the Department of Justice began looking into ways to strip trans Americans of the right to bear arms.
—Grace Byron, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Shooting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shooting. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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