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This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.
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CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
In 2025, as of April 7, 10 people have been executed in the U.S. by lethal injection, nitrogen gas or firing squad, and several more executions are scheduled this year.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Look at you, 10 years old, being asked to imagine a girl’s death via firing squad!
—Gabra Zackman Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
The high courts in Georgia and Nebraska banned electrocution, and a circuit judge in South Carolina found both the firing squad and electric chair unconstitutional in 2022.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
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CBS News, 9 Apr. 2025
In 2025, as of April 7, 10 people have been executed in the U.S. by lethal injection, nitrogen gas or firing squad, and several more executions are scheduled this year.
—Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 8 Apr. 2025
Look at you, 10 years old, being asked to imagine a girl’s death via firing squad!
—Gabra Zackman Emma Kehlbeck Ted Blaisdell, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
The high courts in Georgia and Nebraska banned electrocution, and a circuit judge in South Carolina found both the firing squad and electric chair unconstitutional in 2022.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for firing squad
Noun
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The north was expected to be America’s rear guard, a place where values like democracy and women’s rights might have taken hold.—
Azam Ahmed,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2024
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And assassins from a coalition of all the local indigenous tribes — out for blood over the murder of Jimmy the Creek, one of their own, last episode — slit the throats of Ming’s rear guard.—
Sean T. Collins,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Randy Haight – at the time a young patrol officer who was at the crime scene — met his partner at the hospital.—
Erin Moriarty, Liza Finley,
CBS News,
4 May 2025
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Some have expressed concerns that patrol officers would be taken out of the field to backfill certain desk jobs.—
Libor Jany,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2025
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From 1910 to 2001, the Liberty Crest Apartments were known as the Lorton Reformatory, a prison in Lorton, Virginia that housed inmates from Washington, D.C. It is more widely known as the site where many suffragists were held after the Silent Sentinels pickets at the White House in 1917.—
Celia Fernandez,
CNBC,
19 Apr. 2025
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More than 400 of the 600 unionized workers took part in the pickets at the distributor’s Hunts Point headquarters on E. 149th St. in the Bronx and at other facilities owned by the company on Metropolitan Ave.—
Ellen Moynihan,
New York Daily News,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Alpha also intends to grow its footprint in Texas, opening schools in fall 2025 in Houston and Fort Worth, as well as outposts in Phoenix, New York City and Santa Barbara, California.—
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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Its owner, Clayton Wilson, founded his first outpost in Chicago.—
William Goodman,
Robb Report,
1 May 2025
Noun
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One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos.—
Sofia Giannuzzi,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Apr. 2025
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The snout of a curious whale and the muzzle of a four-legged sentry came oh-so close.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
7 Apr. 2025
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Under her watch, the company distributed such festival firepower as The Boy and the Heron and Memoir of a Snail.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
9 May 2025
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While the Classic looks a little more built-up, and has what may be a larger, physical rotating bezel, both watches have what’s known in some circles as a squircle design.—
Andrew Williams,
Forbes.com,
9 May 2025
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“Firing squad.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/firing%20squad. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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