Synonyms for firing squad
fir·ing squad

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1. firing squad, firing partynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   firing party

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1. Another Tea Party-backed Republican senator:

   This is not the time for a circular firing squad, We need to come together and move forward.

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. 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.

5. Erik Prince:

   This is a circular firing-squad argument.