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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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Medical associations sued to challenge Kennedy’s changes to COVID vaccine guidance and ACIP firings last year on these grounds.—
Grayson Logue,
Washington Post,
9 Jan. 2026
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The end of the NFL regular season has brought the annual slew of head coach firings.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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However, there’s a palpable atmosphere of tension amidst what’s happening with these detonations.—
Keir Simmons,
NBC news,
3 Jan. 2026
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Silva saw two fires on the runway that were quickly put out, and reported hearing similar detonations and planes flying low over Caracas for at least an hour.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
3 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The explosions caused secondary fires that torched neighborhoods, according to the suit.—
Tony Saavedra,
Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Test explosions became increasingly rare.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The world often failed to use those political eruptions to actually improve the lot of the people in those countries.—
Jay Reddick,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Jan. 2026
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On top of that, cosmic rays and the Sun's own eruptions can upset electronics.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Shootings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shootings. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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