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  • noun Plural form of targeting.

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  • Next, put together the mistaken targetings, the American denials or expressions of condolence, the predictable announcements of investigations whose results never seem to surface, as well as the minimalist coverage in the U.S., and you have a pattern: that is, something you can be sure will happen again and again on as yet unknown days in 2011 to as little attention here.

    Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011

  • Next, put together the mistaken targetings, the American denials or expressions of condolence, the predictable announcements of investigations whose results never seem to surface, as well as the minimalist coverage in the U.S., and you have a pattern: that is, something you can be sure will happen again and again on as yet unknown days in 2011 to as little attention here.

    Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011

  • Next, put together the mistaken targetings, the American denials or expressions of condolence, the predictable announcements of investigations whose results never seem to surface, as well as the minimalist coverage in the U.S., and you have a pattern: that is, something you can be sure will happen again and again on as yet unknown days in 2011 to as little attention here.

    Tom Engelhardt: In the Crosshairs: Tucson-Kabul Tom Engelhardt 2011

  • It's not clear if all those explosions were -- were the targetings of just those two buildings or if there were other targets.

    CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2008 2008

  • There are presidential targetings and presidential campaigns.

    CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2007 2007

  • He started doing that by the car bombings and targetings of innocent Shia civilians, hoping to provoke the Shia.

    CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2006 2006

  • Except that this time it's the NFL's embedded media tearing itself up over the scourge of deliberate targetings of the brain - while trying not to bite the silk glove that feeds them.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Bruce Dowbiggin 2010

  • Except that this time it's the NFL's embedded media tearing itself up over the scourge of deliberate targetings of the brain - while trying not to bite the silk glove that feeds them.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Bruce Dowbiggin 2010

  • His account will be burdened by the bombing and shelling of population centers, the hundreds of dead and wounded women and children, the numerous targetings of medical crews, the firing of phosphorus shells at civilian areas, the shelling of a UN-run school that served as a shelter for residents who bled to death over days as the IDF prevented their evacuation by shooting and shelling.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • And in the face of suicide bombings, targetings, and abductions and beatings, in Iraq, this is just the typical story common to all the 230,000-plus Iraqi Army Soldiers and police service officers choosing to serve their country.

    Marine Corps Moms 2008

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