SHOOTINGS Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

shootings

noun

plural of shooting

as in firings

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Dissimilar Words

implosions

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Recent Examples of shootings Such shootings have ranged from isolated events between service members to mass casualty events, such as the shooting by an Army psychiatrist at Texas' Ford Hood in 2009 that left 13 people dead. — CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026 String of other shootings in Mississippi The update on Friday night's shooting came amid a string of shootings throughout the state this weekend. — 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

Noun

The hearing arrived at a tumultuous time for the Justice Department, with mass firings and resignations hollowing out the workforce and Democrats and other critics raising alarms that Blanche is still functioning as the president’s personal lawyer.

— Eric Tucker, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Kids who grew up near those hills remember the rumble and roar of Rocketdyne testing another rocket engine and the cloudbanks of smoke from the test firings.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of firings

Noun

Slow and steady The most successful transformations look less like detonations and more like construction projects—unglamorous, incremental, and mapped out well in advance.

— Claire Zillman, Fortune, 12 June 2026
Meanwhile, sailors aboard USS Barb reported hearing distant explosions and depth-charge detonations during the same period, believing they may have been associated with an attack on Herring.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026

Definition of detonations

Noun

Fedorov’s removal came as Russian missiles struck Kyiv early Thursday, with loud explosions heard in the Ukrainian capital just hours before British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was set to arrive.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
And most often these fires, explosions and leaks happen in working-class neighborhoods.

— Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026