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Recent Examples of shootings
String of other shootings in Mississippi The update on Friday night's shooting came amid a string of shootings throughout the state this weekend.
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Alexandra Faul, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025
Still, to quickly group all those shootings together is to obscure how this particular shooting has affected this particular church with its particular past.
—Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
The same user told Holly to get a patch with a Nazi-era symbol that suspects wore in the 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shootings and the 2022 Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting, according to the ADL.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
Alexandra Faul, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2025
Still, to quickly group all those shootings together is to obscure how this particular shooting has affected this particular church with its particular past.
—Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
The same user told Holly to get a patch with a Nazi-era symbol that suspects wore in the 2019 Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shootings and the 2022 Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting, according to the ADL.
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shootings
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Requiring over 20 hours of fabrication time, this lustrous dial is produced via the application of numerous layers of vitreous enamel and multiple firings in a kiln measuring between 800 degrees and 900 degrees Celsius.—
Oren Hartov,
Robb Report,
25 Oct. 2025
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Over the past 10 months, EOIR has lost more than 125 judges to firings and voluntary resignations, down from about 700 judges at the start of the year.—
NPR,
NPR,
24 Oct. 2025
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Those detonations had the explosive equivalent of one Hiroshima-sized atomic bomb every day for 20 years, according to a 2025 report from the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER).—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed but not ratified by Washington, has largely prevented such detonations, with North Korea being the only nation to break it.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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These meteors are particularly known for being rich in fireballs, illuminating the sky with large explosions of light and color, and can produce about five meteors an hour at their peak.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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It’s most often seen in people who play sports like football, hockey and soccer, but it’s also been detected in the brains of soldiers who have been injured in explosions and in some people who experienced domestic violence.—
Jen Christensen,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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Historically, volcanic eruptions have blasted millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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These vast eruptions hurl immense clouds of magnetized plasma from the sun's corona into interplanetary space, sometimes at millions of miles per hour.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Shootings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shootings. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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