SHOOTINGS Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

shootings

noun

plural of shooting

as in firings

Related Words

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Dissimilar Words

implosions

Example Sentences

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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. — 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 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 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

Francisco Lindor had been through managerial firings before with the New York Mets.

— Brendan Kuty, New York Times, 27 June 2026
What is particularly concerning about these firings is the effect the dismissals will have on the officer ranks.

— William H. McRaven, The Atlantic, 25 June 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

Multiple explosions were heard in Kyiv, a Reuters witness said.

— Reuters, NBC news, 2 July 2026
Instead of focusing narrowly on one object at a time, the observatory will sweep across huge areas of sky, building an archive of stars, galaxies, asteroids and cosmic explosions.

— Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of explosions

Noun

Several of these eruptions were accompanied by coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that appear to be at least partially Earth-directed.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 2 July 2026
The most powerful solar flares are X-class solar flares, and forecasters at NOAA observed one of these eruptions on Tuesday.

— Zachary Folk, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026