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  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. Stephanie Vincent-Sheldon:

    It's basically a firing squad.

  3. Paul Ray:

    Your body is paralyzed, you feel everything, your body slowly shuts down over a period of minutes based on the drug cocktail that's given to you. Whereas a firing squad, you reach the death obviously in three to five seconds.

  4. 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.

  5. Hugh Hewitt:

    I do worry about a conservative circular firing squad. All that does is play into the hands of the left, and give them the election victory by default that they're looking for.

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