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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shootings
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Nonetheless, the firings were a reminder that the runway for a play caller to find his rhythm can be unforgiving.
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The heckler's veto The wave of firings after Kirk's assassination was spurred on by pro-Trump influencers, lawmakers and Vice President JD Vance.
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Slow and steady The most successful transformations look less like detonations and more like construction projects—unglamorous, incremental, and mapped out well in advance.
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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.
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The satellite's primary objective, though, is to observe gamma-ray bursts – events triggered by the catastrophic deaths of massive stars and considered to be the most powerful types of explosions in the universe.
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The observatory has spent over two decades as a sort of orbital sentinel that scans the cosmos for gamma-ray bursts, ready to quickly point itself at the short-lived — but insanely powerful — space explosions at a moment's notice.
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The hotel staff can help direct you to info about eruptions, closures, and options for outdoor experiences.
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During The Great Dying, massive volcanic eruptions triggered catastrophic climate changes that altered the planet’s entire biosphere.
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“Shootings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shootings. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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