fired

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Usyk responded with a sharp double uppercut in the second, but Verhoeven absorbed it well and fired back with two right hands of his own.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

Police and security forces swarmed the White House on Saturday evening after shots were fired in the area, authorities said.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

Hughes fired his coach in February 2022 and decided that if he wanted different results, he had to do something wildly different.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

For a while, it seemed that Gabbard would be fired, not resign.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

“I know what you’re saying, Mr. Mosley, but the fact is, she wouldn’t have been fired if I hadn’t gotten the flu.”

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly