suicide
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The claims, for which Homeland Security spent $96 million, show detainees were treated for a wide variety of conditions, including strokes, pregnancy, suicide attempts and frostbite.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Tibetans, whose Buddhist beliefs allow for infinite reincarnation, reject notions Lobga simply died by suicide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
The Police Federation said more than 100 police officers and staff across the country had died by suicide since 2022.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
It is not meant to replace humans and cannot bring down Japan's suicide rate -- the highest in the G7 -- alone, she stressed.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
A beautiful French spy escapes murderous Gestapo agents in Paris; in the North Sea, British navy sailors brave a suicide mission against enemy submarines.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Chief constables have also recently announced that all forces will introduce mandatory recording of police officer suicides.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Licadho said it has documented 23 suicides and dozens of cases of migration, child labor and decreased food consumption linked to microfinance debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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
Founded in 1953, the Samaritans focus on preventing suicides by connecting trained volunteers with people who are struggling.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2025
I should be a bodybuilder, with all the push-ups and suicides she made me do.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
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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
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
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
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