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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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This is a path that flies Orion to lunar space on a direct path back to Earth to avoid the need for any major firings of the spacecraft's engine after its translunar injection burn that will put it on a course for the moon.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
27 Mar. 2026
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In these latest cuts, some of the other firings were in sales, recruiting, and Facebook, signaling that Zuckerberg is separating the chaff in non-AI related units beyond its flailing Metaverse division.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
26 Mar. 2026
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Given the prospect of nuclear war, humanity’s arsenal could indeed wipe out every living human on Earth from detonations and the ensuing fallout.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
4 Mar. 2026
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Remote detonations are also used to trigger slides intentionally and remove risky buildup before skiers are allowed on the slopes, said Chris Lundy, an avalanche specialist with the National Avalanche Center.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 Feb. 2026
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In Israel, loud explosions filled the air in Tel Aviv and emergency crews responded to nearly a dozen impact sites.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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According to the Iranian media, one witness reported hearing multiple explosions near Mashhad Airport shortly after 7 pm, local time.—
Moriah Thomas,
CNN Money,
28 Mar. 2026
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But solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — huge eruptions of solar plasma — could be a threat to Artemis astronauts venturing far beyond our planet, as could cosmic rays, which originate far beyond our solar system.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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And while many are extinct or dormant, two of them, Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, are still capable of destructive and deadly eruptions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
27 Mar. 2026
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“Shootings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shootings. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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