suicide
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He said this was not the more famous Führerbunker, where Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide and which lies about 120m to the north.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide, but it’s continued to drive scrutiny, skepticism and conspiracy theories in the years since.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
The South Korean military’s new plan includes long-range suicide drones similar to those used by the U.S. and Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
In 2021, Japan appointed a minister to tackle social isolation and rising rates of suicide.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
“To go into a pitch-black reactor building, with the containment pressure so high…,” he later remembered, “it felt like we were putting together a suicide squad.”
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
Local human-rights groups have tied excessive microfinance debt to suicides, migration, child labor and decreased food consumption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
He believes a recent spate of deputy suicides was tied to burnout from long hours, but said the department should be encouraging employees to recruit their friends and family.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Police officers are now required to check for a history of domestic abuse in suicides and other unexpected deaths.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 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
“Yeah, but making you do suicides is all he’s got,” Marcus said.
From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan
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 Carlyle, Thomas
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 Franck, Harry Alverson
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