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The mental toll of being a musician – one that has been in the firing line for critics and online trolls – is similarly demanding.
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Thomas Smith, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2025
From testimony on the ground, those who have fled said that men have been separated from women and children, who are now likely in hiding, but are next in the firing line, Raymond said.
—Camilla Alcini, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2025
Cheryl Burke has unexpectedly found herself in the firing line for not giving one Dancing With the Stars contestant a sufficiently high score.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
In June, Germany’s chief of defense, General Carsten Breuer, told the BBC that NATO must be ready to repel a possible Russian attack within the next four years, and that the Baltic states could be among the first in the firing line.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
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Thomas Smith, Billboard, 15 Dec. 2025
From testimony on the ground, those who have fled said that men have been separated from women and children, who are now likely in hiding, but are next in the firing line, Raymond said.
—Camilla Alcini, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2025
Cheryl Burke has unexpectedly found herself in the firing line for not giving one Dancing With the Stars contestant a sufficiently high score.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
In June, Germany’s chief of defense, General Carsten Breuer, told the BBC that NATO must be ready to repel a possible Russian attack within the next four years, and that the Baltic states could be among the first in the firing line.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
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“In the firing line.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20the%20firing%20line. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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