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suicide

[soo-uh-sahyd] / ˈsu əˌsaɪd /


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“The Floating World” is narrated by a youngish, principled, unnamed man whose wife has recently died, apparently by suicide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Research has shown that fathers, especially men in their 20s through early 40s, are disproportionately affected by preventable causes of death including suicide, overdose, homicide and accidental injury.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

In August, military families and lawmakers sounded the alarm about issues including reported suicide attempts and food shortages aboard the carrier.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Teens in August, promising “stronger built-in safety protections” for users under 18, including limits on discussions around suicide, eating disorders, violence and sexual content.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Initially, the shah said, "You people are nuts! Everyone loves Mossadegh. You're asking me to commit political suicide."

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi

She could write and she wrote a great deal, including detective fiction, a gothic thriller “of devilry, seduction, and hashish” and stories about “ghosts, suicides, and kidnapping.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Chief constables have also recently announced that all forces will introduce mandatory recording of police officer suicides.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Fatalities in ICE custody are typically the result of poor medical care or suicides, said Shuchart, the former Trump oversight official.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2026

The Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission will probe the county’s Correctional Health Services during its next meeting, specifically eight suicides and 10 drug-related deaths that occurred in 2025, said Hans Johnson, commission chair.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

With the nation’s economic depression growing ever more profound—banks failing, suicides multiplying—it seemed an impossibility.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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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