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Recent Examples of firing squad
South Carolina has put prisoners to death by by firing squad twice in 2025.
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Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2025
In 1918, Bolshevik secret police forced Anastasia Romanov and her imperial family into a damp basement to face a merciless firing squad.
—Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Now, the state is making the firing squad its lead method of execution.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
The firing squad is an alternative method of execution in four states: Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 19 May 2025
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Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2025
In 1918, Bolshevik secret police forced Anastasia Romanov and her imperial family into a damp basement to face a merciless firing squad.
—Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Now, the state is making the firing squad its lead method of execution.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
The firing squad is an alternative method of execution in four states: Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah.
—Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for firing squad
Noun
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The north was expected to be America’s rear guard, a place where values like democracy and women’s rights might have taken hold.—
Azam Ahmed,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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And assassins from a coalition of all the local indigenous tribes — out for blood over the murder of Jimmy the Creek, one of their own, last episode — slit the throats of Ming’s rear guard.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Employees deemed essential to public safety, including military personnel, law enforcement officers, border patrol and air traffic controllers are required to report for duty without pay.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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During the same patrol, coast guard personnel discovered a second buoy at the northern end of Scarborough Shoal, after spotting one placed near the middle of the atoll earlier in the week, the official said.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Biggest strike ever The United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals said the daily pickets at 19 hospitals and clinics across the two-state region would be their largest ever strike against Kaiser.—
Pat Maio,
Oc Register,
13 Oct. 2025
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While searching Wallen, an officer pulled out a pocket knife from his front picket.—
Kirsten Fiscus,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
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Food and Drink As with several other Fasano hotels, the Rio de Janeiro location includes an outpost of the brand’s Italian concept, Gero (also the nickname of the Fasano Group’s founder).—
Hannah Walhout,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Oct. 2025
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In 1992, the company expanded outside of Spain with two outposts in Portugal.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Reenactors portraying British sentries were bum-rushed by a swarm of whooping Green Mountain Boys.—
Caity Weaver,
The Atlantic,
8 Oct. 2025
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But now, as California enters what is historically the most dangerous part of fire season — the end of summer before the first major rains — lone human sentries have largely given way to a new type of fire lookout on mountain tops: high-tech cameras.—
Paul Rogers,
Boston Herald,
23 Sep. 2025
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Or for the wide swaths of empty seats in the upper deck that formed after the New York Giants put the game in a vice grip with a three-score lead late in the third quarter and put the Broncos on shutout watch.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
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This watch guide was created using technology provided by Data Skrive.—
Data Skrive,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Firing squad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firing%20squad. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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