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fire

verb as in detonate or throw a weapon

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One is her father, an industrial salesman who she has said was once fired after speaking up about his faith on the job.

A few days later came another job - to set fire to a van belonging to a conscription centre, film it and run.

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Even in the workplace, she feels the pressure, "I know that I can make a mistake and I won't lose my job, yet I constantly feel like I'm one strike away from being fired".

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These attacks fire up the Democratic base and raise doubts among voters that he doth protest too much.

Gonzalez alleged that a man approached them, “started yelling violent homophobic slurs” and “raised a gun from his lap and fired.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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