SHOOTINGS Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

shootings

noun

plural of shooting

as in firings

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implosions

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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. — 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

Noun

Thursday's lawsuit cites public comments made by top Justice Department officials and the president directed toward the plaintiffs as evidence the firings were motivated by political animus.

— Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
The lawsuit seeks, among other remedies, reinstatement to the FBI, an awarding of back pay and a court order declaring that the firings were unlawful.

— Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of firings

Noun

The resulting detonations will result in explosions, flashes of light and clouds of smoke visible from a distance, the Navy said.

— Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026
Gripped by a summer of weather extremes, Romania recently shut down its sole working nuclear reactor cooled by the Danube for the first time, with Bucharest even deploying naval forces to carry out underwater detonations to improve water flow.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of detonations

Noun

The explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which was Russia's main natural gas supply route to Germany until Moscow cut off supplies in August 2022.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
Russia’s ballistic missiles can reach Kyiv in just minutes, leaving little time to respond; in some recent attacks, air raid sirens sounded at the same time as the first explosions.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of explosions

Noun

Xu Fu and Ma Junsheng also play surrogate dads to Seif, whose increasingly violent eruptions threaten to change the course of his life more than once.

— Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
As of last month, 52 additional fountain eruptions had occurred, the most violent of which spewed lava over 400 meters into the air.

— John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2026