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to firefight
noun
A skirmish involving an exchange of gunfire.
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Klein himself was catapulted into a central role in the company's attempts to firefight the scandal.
Government debt has spiralled above £40bn to firefight the effects of the recession, but swingeing cuts are imminent.
A series from embeds with medevac teams responding to firefight casualties feels like a continuation of his work on the prosthetics ward.
Our student counsellor is currently unable to manage the number of referrals they receive; they say that they are only able to "firefight".
But Dragasakis was given "operations": to operate the government, to firefight the banking system, to sort out the state energy company.
It's tempting to firefight and deal with these as quickly as possible but it's not always the right thing to do.
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He credits his faith in God with his ability to return to the firefight to check on the status of the downed helicopter.
Rebels around the globe regularly invite journalists to firefights and transmit videotaped manifestos to television stations.
All the marines had cameras, and they recorded everything, from pizza-eating contests and their messages to loved ones at home to firefights and mine explosions.
This past week, there were new sectarian atrocities, leading to firefights between antibalaka and Muslims around PK5, and scores of casualties, among them soldiers from the newly deployed U.N. peacekeeping force, MINUSCA.
He has written on everything from a Bedouin wedding in the Sinai to firefights in the jungles of Vietnam to presidential news conferences in the White House.
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