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Recent Examples of Synonyms for firing squads
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The Church, which is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, is best known for organizing pickets at soldiers’ funerals and emblazoning anti-LGBT slogans on protest signs and billboards.—
Lilit Marcus,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025 -
Where will Starbucks Workers United hold rallies and pickets?—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Additional watches and warnings could be required later today.—
MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT,
Miami Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Hurricane watches are also in effect for the Cuban provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo and Holguin, the hurricane center said.—
Mike Snider,
USA Today,
26 Oct. 2025
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Started in 1929 in Oakland by Kasper Koojoolian, the brand has now gone from roughly a dozen outposts around the Bay down to zero — though Caspers Hot Dogs, another East Bay chain, is still seemingly doing fine.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
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OneTaste spun off outposts in at least eleven cities across the globe, expanding its seminars and demos into an expensive certification program.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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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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Rows of lights stood like sentries above, adorned with flat visors that guided the glow onto the action.—
Adithi Ramakrishnan,
Twin Cities,
21 Aug. 2025
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“Firing squads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firing%20squads. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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