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Princeton's WordNet

  1. firing squad, firing partynoun

    a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution

Wiktionary

  1. firing squadnoun

    A group of soldiers or paramilitaries detailed to execute someone, usually by rifle shot, or to discharge their weapons ceremonially at a funeral.

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  1. firing squad

    A firing squad is a group of people, usually soldiers, selected and assigned to shoot and execute a condemned person. This form of execution typically involves the squad standing in a line or semi-circle several feet away from the individual to be executed, who might be blindfolded or tied to a stake. The squad is then ordered to aim their firearms and shoot simultaneously, ensuring death most commonly through multiple gunshots.

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  1. Firing Squad

    Firing Squad is hardcore rap group M.O.P.'s second album released on Relativity Records in 1996. It features production by DJ Premier, Big Jaz, Ali Dee, and M.O.P. & Laze E. Laze and guest appearances by Kool G. Rap, Teflon, and Battle. The whole album was mixed and overseen by DJ Premier, a tradition that would also carry on over the next two M.O.P. albums. The album is broken down track-by-track by M.O.P. in Brian Coleman's book Check the Technique.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of firing squad in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of firing squad in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of firing squad in a Sentence

  1. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy:

    Every single House Democrats, you can ask them, Pelosi on down, that it's one bill. So you're not voting for a $ 1.5 trillion infrastructure bill, you're voting for a $ 5 trillion bill, they will hold it unless it goes forward. They have their internal firing squad right now upset with each other because one side won't vote for it unless they get reconciliation.

  2. Barack Obama:

    One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States is a certain kind of rigidity where we say, Uh, Im sorry, this is how its going to be, and then we start sometimes creating whats called a circular firing squad, where you start shooting at your allies because one of them has strayed from purity on the issues.

  3. Michelle Obama:

    One of the things I do worry about sometimes among progressives in the United States, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say,' Uh, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be,' and then we start sometimes creating what's called a' circular firing squad,' where you start shooting at your allies because one of them is straying from purity on the issues.

  4. Jenny Cudd:

    All we need is one public hanging, and then people will start acting right -- kind of like it would be useful if we still had the firing squad for the death penalty, we shall see if there will be a public hanging in our future because it is still considered a valid form of death for treason.

  5. Colin Strother:

    We need to end the circular firing squad and get to work. Our biggest obstacle to success is members of our own Democratic Party, we have one or two senators holding up big ticket items that we need to pass. We have a handful of the far left in the House who have never done anything acting like they dictate the agenda and the timeline for bills passing.


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