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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.
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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
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
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The allegations include racial harassment, discriminatory assignments, pay inequality, retaliation, failure to prevent discrimination and harassment, and unequal treatment in areas including discipline, promotions, firings, and constructive discharges.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 May 2026
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There’s no telling where the Red Sox would have been at this point if the firings hadn’t happened.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
27 May 2026
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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
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Only when more members and influential insiders demand better of one another as a matter of course, before things go sideways, will there be fewer political self-detonations and shattered lives.—
Michelle Cottle,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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Perhaps alarmingly, the city’s air defenses appeared to be less active during the final wave of Russian strikes on Tuesday morning, with CNN producers hearing ongoing explosions, but not the sound of counter-systems firing.—
Lauren Kent,
CNN Money,
4 June 2026
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Some were awakened by explosions; others pulled back their curtains in the early hours to see plumes of black smoke rising above the city.—
David Hickey,
NBC news,
4 June 2026
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There’s a certain predictability to the plots in a Taylor Sheridan production — a kind of slow, relentless grind from crisis to crisis, punctuated by occasional eruptions of violence.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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The Island of Hawaii features three famous volcanoes — Kilauea with its spectacular eruptions, Mauna Kea and its spectacular sunsets, and Mauna Loa, the world’s highest mountain when measured from its underwater base to the summit.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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“Shootings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shootings. Accessed 8 Jun. 2026.
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