suicide
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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
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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
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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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