SHOOTINGS Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

shootings

noun

plural of shooting

as in firings

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Dissimilar Words

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

The firings also weren’t the only safety departure at OpenAI last week.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026
Director Kash Patel says the report aims to promote accountability and rebuild public trust; critics say his investigations and firings have politicized the bureau and further undermined confidence.

— Eric Tucker, Los Angeles Times, 2 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 shoot involved firing blanks and igniting explosions, theatrics that shocked the film’s residential neighbors and spurred concerns over public safety.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026
As the car drives on while dodging a series of explosions, a seemingly endless number of terrorists armed with automatic weapons shoot at it to no avail.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of explosions

Noun

If the incoming eruptions interact favorably with Earth's magnetic field, auroras could potentially reach much farther south than currently anticipated.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026
Volcanologists could use the technology to map internal magma chambers and lava tubes to help predict eruptions.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026