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 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 Blanche will do so with an agency that has been hollowed out by resignations, firings and voluntary departures while also confronting mounting pushback from the courts. — Alanna Durkin Richer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2026 Under Bondi and Blanche’s leadership, the department has lost thousands of employees through firings, resignations or voluntary departures. — Alanna Durkin Richer, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Many of the town’s exterior shots were filmed along White Wharf and the fishing village of Bearskin Neck, a peninsula that served as military barracks during the War of 1812 and is now lined with local shops and restaurants.

— Nicholas DeRenzo, Travel + Leisure, 25 Aug. 2026
Parton wrote the movie’s infectious theme song — which earned her the first of two Oscar nominations — while on the set between shots.

— Deborah Wilker, HollywoodReporter, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of shots

Noun

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
The suit against the ethanol plant also alleged some excess discharges of chlorine and nitrogen ammonia.

— Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of discharges

Noun

Back at Camp Cranium, bursts of laughter, whoops of delight and distant chatter punctuated the humid summer air.

— Lydia McFarlane, NPR, 25 Aug. 2026
To achieve this, the locus coeruleus continuously alternates between tonic activity—governing baseline arousal and alertness—and brief phasic bursts that focus attention on critical events.

— Julian Hayes II, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of bursts

Noun

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
Parliament confirms a new defense chief as Ukraine scores battlefield gains with long-range drone strikes on Russian oil facilities, even while missile barrages, civilian casualties and prisoner exchanges underscore a grinding, unresolved war.

— Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026