Thesaurus results for FIRINGS

firings

noun

plural of firing

as in shots

a directed propelling of a missile by a firearm or artillery piece found a flaw in the gun's firing

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Recent Examples of firings Among other requests, the complaint asked the court to declare the firings unlawful under the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedures Act and bar the Pentagon from proceeding with the terminations. — Brieanna J. Frank, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026 Shortly after the firings, Stars and Stripes published an open letter from Navy Capt. — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026 The mass firings at the CDC in early 2025 gutted the team studying TBI, right before it was expected to launch a nationwide concussion surveillance system. — Lydia McFarlane, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026 One person involved in the effort told me that the firings had been carried out because of an evolution in the business at Fannie and not for any ideological reason. — Michael Scherer, The Atlantic, 22 Aug. 2026 Journalism advocacy groups decried the firings and criticized Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for trying to manipulate independent news coverage of the military. — Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026 This internal family dispute, fueled by a significant increase in the team's valuation and past firings of siblings by Jeanie, sets the stage for a potential legal battle. — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026 More than 10 individual firings, between 900-910°C, were needed to create the clock. — Ming Liu, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026 Speaking in the Great Hall at the DOJ headquarters in Washington, Blanche praised career employees and sought to reassure a workforce depleted by firings and resignations and bruised by courtroom setbacks and accusations of political interference. — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 13 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for firings

Noun

The project repurposes a Denso VS-050 robotic arm, turning it into a court-side training system that delivers repeatable shots without requiring another player.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
But before finishing the sentence, Farrell fired two shots, hitting Pysher twice in the chest, the district attorney’s office said.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of shots

Noun

The group meets monthly and is open to those with honorable, general and other-than-honorable discharges.

— Harllie Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2026
Jackson records show 99 patient discharges to a chain called Villa Rosa, 24 of them to Villa Rosa I, a 40-bed home on West Ninth Street in Hialeah.

— Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of discharges

Noun

The former is meant to image extremely wide sections of the cosmos to capture tons of fleeting phenomena that are hard to catch — things like supernovas, fast radio bursts and maybe even colliding neutron stars.

— Monisha Ravisetti, Space.com, 30 Aug. 2026
At night, the lighting turns the wings into a moving field of color while bursts of fire give the dragon the kind of oversized entrance Burning Man was made for.

— Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of bursts

Noun

For weeks this past spring, Israelis sought shelter from Iranian ballistic missile barrages, sometimes sleeping in underground train stations and parking lots.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2026
Earlier this month, the air force stopped publishing the number of ballistic missiles fired or intercepted in Russia's nightly barrages.

— David Brennan, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026