as in shots
a directed propelling of a missile by a firearm or artillery piece
found a flaw in the gun's firing
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Recent Examples of firings
Medical associations sued to challenge Kennedy’s changes to COVID vaccine guidance and ACIP firings last year on these grounds.
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Grayson Logue, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2026
The end of the NFL regular season has brought the annual slew of head coach firings.
—Chris Vannini, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Giants fans who want Harbaugh should be rooting for the Green Bay Packers to beat the Chicago Bears and the Buffalo Bills to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars, so that the Packers’ Matt LaFleur and the Bills’ Sean McDermott are not in jeopardy of immediate firings to clear the way for Harbaugh.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
The Falcons have moved quickly in trying to restructure their front-office operations after the firings of general manager Terry Fontenot and coach Raheem Morris.
—D. Orlando Ledbetter, AJC.com, 6 Jan. 2026
The end of the NFL season has brought another round of head coach firings.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
Employees protested the company's work with Israel, leading to firings and resignations.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2025
After parents were threatened with firings and evictions, 200 pupils withdrew.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
According to Semafor, which first reported on the firings, the staffers were among a group who sought to question the head of human resources, Stan Duncan, on Wednesday.
—Ted Johnson, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for firings
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Four players attempted five or more foul shots.—
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But as Tuffy staved off 16 shots from BC in the third, MacDonald stepped up midway through to snipe the game-winner.—
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But the discharges also can overwhelm the delicate estuaries east and west of the state’s largest lake and, during the warm summer months, spread blooms of toxic algae, an issue that has become more persistent in recent years.—
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These electrical discharges are directly responsible for killing as many as 320 million individual trees every year.—
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In stronger bursts, faint glows may also appear low on the northern horizon in far northern parts of Wyoming, New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.—
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Little bursts of dub delay flare without warning, kicking up dust devils; every now and then, the telltale sweep of the pitch-bend wheel flicks upward like a fast-rising tide and then, after a minute or two, falls back into place.—
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Russian barrages are aiming at power plants and large substations, and procuring replacement equipment such as transformers can take months, according to Dennis Sakva, an energy sector analyst at Dragon Capital, a Ukrainian investment company.—
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The fighting included fighter jet sorties, exchanges of rocket fire and artillery barrages.—
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“Firings.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firings. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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