suicide
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In the general population, men die from suicide at significantly higher rates than women.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
And during Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s 2017 confirmation hearings, some media outlets claimed that President Donald Trump’s nominee had plagiarized parts of his 2006 book about assisted suicide.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
In both alleged letters, Harp reflects on her father’s suicide and thanks Trump for “always being there for me” as her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.”
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Years of research by the VA has determined troops and veterans are at a 50% higher risk of suicide compared to the general American population.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The world was full of fathers—was therefore full of misery; full of mothers—therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts—full of madness and suicide.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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It claims more than half of police suicides - 32 out of 55 - recorded across the UK from 2022-24 involved officers under investigation.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Politicians in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh blamed microfinance loans for a wave of suicides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
In 1955 John Kenneth Galbraith punctured one of the strangely enduring myths about the aftermath: that there was a wave of suicides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
When Japan recently investigated the Unification Church for defrauding its members, leading to bankruptcies and suicides, the church decried the prosecution as an attack on religious freedom.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2025
There were still questions about the wheel’s safety, and unfounded stories circulated about suicides and accidents, including one that alleged that a frightened pug had leaped to its death from one of the car’s windows.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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The same goes for so much of Picasso's art – from his homage to a suicided young friend, The Death of Casagemas, to his last desperate self-portraits.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2013
Yes, surely;—and introducing, we remark withal, the "New Era," of Philanthropy, Enlightenment and so much else; with French Revolution, and a "world well suicided" hanging in the rear!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
I could easily have fancied myself a tourist, especially so at Matachin when "Mac" solemnly attempted to "spring" on me the old tourist hoax of suicided Chinamen as the derivation of the town's name.
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Harry Alverson Franck
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