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suicide

[soo-uh-sahyd] / ˈsu əˌsaɪd /


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Growing financial pressures across the charities sector has been evident in recent months, including the closure of suicide prevention charity Papyrus in September.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

“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

It’s bad enough my clothes don’t match with the latest fads, but wearing high-waters is considered social suicide in middle school.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

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

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

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

Men make up 87 percent of suicides by firearm in the United States.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 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

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

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


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