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suicide

[soo-uh-sahyd] / ˈsu əˌsaɪd /


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Boston University's CTE Center said the cause of suicide was complex and a CTE diagnosis was not known to be a risk factor for suicide.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

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

In 2021, Japan appointed a minister to tackle social isolation and rising rates of suicide.

From MarketWatch Jun. 19, 2026

But in those close quarters, a flash would be suicide and he knew it.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

Politicians in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh blamed microfinance loans for a wave of suicides.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 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

Founded in 1953, the Samaritans focus on preventing suicides by connecting trained volunteers with people who are struggling.

From BBC Jul. 24, 2025

When Japan recently investigated the Unification Church for defrauding its members, leading to bankruptcies and suicides, the church decried the prosecution as an attack on religious freedom.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2025

There were still questions about the wheel’s safety, and unfounded stories circulated about suicides and accidents, including one that alleged that a frightened pug had leaped to its death from one of the car’s windows.

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

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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