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Recent Examples of gunshots
Her husband died from multiple gunshots, and the two children died from a single gunshot, the release says.
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Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2025
Moments later, a resident’s surveillance system recorded four rapid gunshots followed by three rapid gunshots and a final gunshot.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2025
Moments later, a resident’s surveillance system recorded four rapid gunshots followed by three rapid gunshots and a final gunshot.
—Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gunshots
Noun
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The Kremlin will also be pleased the US has used huge numbers of munitions, notably advanced missiles that Ukraine badly needed.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
13 Mar. 2026
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Destroyers also carry between four to eight Harpoon anti-ship missiles that can travel a far as 65 nautical miles to strike at any adversarial warships.—
Luis Martinez,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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After the shooting, investigators recovered 44 spent 9-millimeter shell casings, one unfired cartridge casing, and numerous projectiles and projectile fragments.—
Mark Reynolds,
The Providence Journal,
9 Feb. 2026
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These expanding shells play a key role in enriching the interstellar medium with heavy elements and molecules that later help build new stars and planets.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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My mum worked at the BSA factory at the time, putting explosives into artillery shells.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
15 Mar. 2026
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Shortly after, Kitchens said Dickey fired eight to 10 rounds from a rifle toward officials.—
Caroline Zimmerman,
Kansas City Star,
14 Mar. 2026
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The piece has eight sections, representing eight rounds of chemotherapy.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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This approach allows for ramping up or down instantly to maintain high efficiency across varying loads and perfectly match the natural, fluctuating power profile of the sun and wind.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Mar. 2026
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The Type 00 gave Jaguar loads of new identity—being large, distinctive-looking, and very pink—but that identity wasn’t a universal hit with the purists, which is probably why Jaguar persisted anyway.—
Erik Shilling,
Robb Report,
10 Mar. 2026
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Among its many benefits, diatomaceous earth (DE) can control pests as varied as earwigs, caterpillars, ants and aphids, and keep slugs and snails out of garden beds, too.—
Lauren Landers,
The Spruce,
10 Mar. 2026
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The parasite’s usual life cycle involves infected rodents passing the larvae through their feces, which is then eaten by gastropods, such as snails and slugs, according to the study.—
Caleb Lunetta,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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Nunez had just stepped out of the bar when he was hit by bullets fired from inside the watering hole.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
10 Mar. 2026
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No one was injured, but bullets struck the singer’s home, an Airstream parked on the property and a neighbor’s house, according to a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of the case who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the public.—
James Queally,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Projections of new optical storage archiving systems promise 1PB raw capacity optical cartridges by the 2030’s, compared to the possible 365TB raw capacity cartridge projections for LTO Gen 14.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Gunshots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunshots. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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