Thesaurus results for SHOOTERS

shooters

noun

plural of shooter

as in guns

a person skilled in shooting at a target there were eight shooters taking turns at the same target in the final competition

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as in photographers

one who takes photographs he's one of the best shooters of wildlife in all of professional photography

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Recent Examples of shooters After all, Thompson is one of the best three-point shooters in NBA history. — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2026 Peterson used screen names of mass shooters, including the name of the gunman who killed students at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the man who killed movie-goers in Aurora, Colorado. — Wcco Staff, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026 Witnesses and victims identified Estrada Ramirez as one of the shooters. — Annasofia Scheve, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Oct. 2026 Both are offensive dynamos who are remarkably efficient, especially for high-usage, high-volume shooters. — Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2026 The Army has not carried out an execution by firing squad since 1945 and is still developing procedures for doing so, including determining how many shooters would participate and what type of chair would be used to secure Hasan. — ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026 Inside the restaurant, guests chatted among Dean’s signature Guinness-and-oyster shooters and silver bowls piled high with chips, but the warm fall night meant taking advantage of the sidewalk space also appealed. — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 Police are searching for additional suspects, including people who may have helped the shooters, CMPD Chief Estella Patterson said at a news conference. — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2026 Authorities have not arrested any suspects, identified a potential motive or said how many shooters may have been involved. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Assassin is a real-life game played around the world, with NERF guns or water pistols most commonly used as the assassination method.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
The United States is currently managing to get significant amounts of crude oil (if not refined product) through the strait, but only by providing costly military protection to tankers that slip past Iran’s guns with their transponders off.

— Philip H. Gordon, Foreign Affairs, 12 Oct. 2026

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Composed of 160 photographs taken across the past seven decades by 118 photographers, the show suggests the jobs, romances, family life, and lazy afternoons that could have been his.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 13 Oct. 2026
This restriction made photographs of Nusra fighters all the more valuable—which made some photographers try to sneak images from their fixers’ cars.

— Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of photographers

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The need for an outdoor gun range is urgent, according to multiple city officials, marksmen and developers the Idaho Statesman spoke with.

— Noah Daly August 6, Idaho Statesman, 6 Aug. 2026
In Idaho, executions will be carried out at the Idaho Maximum Security Institution by three volunteer police marksmen whose identities will be kept confidential.

— Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Definition of marksmen

Noun

Officials have considered mass sterilization or hiring sharpshooters, but those options are wildly expensive.

— Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Leo took a pilgrimage to those ruins Tuesday, arriving during a rainstorm with sharpshooters covering the ancient flagstones and colonnades.

— Claudio Lavanga, NBC news, 15 Apr. 2026

Definition of sharpshooters

Noun

Two men were found dead inside a Long Beach home after one of them exchanged shots with police and sparked a standoff with SWAT officers in a residential neighborhood early Saturday morning, police said.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2026
One possibly surprising tool to map out shots for the film to ensure the visual representation of this repetition and cycle was Microsoft Excel.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of shots

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The photos that people shared with Beck of snipers at a Carolina Panthers game were from 2024 when fans spotted snipers on the roof of Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte.

— Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2026
Doctors in Aleppo later reported a pattern of regime snipers shooting to maim civilians, rather than to kill them—partly to maximize suffering, partly to invite rescue attempts.

— Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of snipers

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