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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
Noun
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Employees protested the company's work with Israel, leading to firings and resignations.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
6 Nov. 2025
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After parents were threatened with firings and evictions, 200 pupils withdrew.—
Equal Justice Initiative,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Dailey traveled to Gralphs' Madison, Wisconsin, home in 2019, and learned about his experiences in Operation Crossroads, a pair of nuclear tests that took place at Bikini Atoll in 1946, marking the first nuclear detonations since the bombs dropped on Japan.—
Hope Hodge Seck,
USA Today,
6 Nov. 2025
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright later clarified that the tests would not include actual detonations, as had been carried out in the past.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The children grow before the camera’s eye, taking their first steps and speaking their first words to the backdrop of explosions—moving from tent to tent, clinging to life, and longing for their mother’s embrace.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
10 Nov. 2025
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For soldiers caught in explosions, survival often comes at a steep physical cost.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Several eruptions of energy from the sun, known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, are expected to reach Earth’s magnetic field over the next two nights.—
Briana Waxman,
CNN Money,
12 Nov. 2025
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Hazards from eruptions at Kilauea include high levels of volcanic gas, ash, pumice, scoria and reticulite and Pele's hair -- strands of volcanic glass produced by lava fountaining that can be carried more than 10 miles from the vent, according to the USGS.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Shootings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shootings. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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