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suicide

[soo-uh-sahyd] / ˈsu əˌsaɪd /


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Tell me about bankruptcies—perhaps a significant reason farming has such a high suicide rate.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Through her work she has seen that "experiences in early childhood are often the root cause of today's hardest social challenges, such as addiction, family breakdown, poor mental health, suicide and homelessness," the foundation says.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

The disgraced financier would ultimately die weeks later in the same New York facility in what was ruled a suicide.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Within a few months in office, Patel had fallen into line, telling Fox News that Epstein committed suicide and rejecting his former conspiracist audience’s belief that it was a murder.

From Salon • Apr. 24, 2026

“Every municipality has a suicide hotline, and they’re listed right in the government services section of the yellow pages,” it says.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini



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