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homicide

noun

ˈhä-mə-ˌsīd

Definition of homicide

as in murder

the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life it was feared that the missing man was the victim of a homicide, but no clues as to his disappearance were ever found

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a person who kills another person throughout the ages society has stigmatized the homicide

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Recent Examples of homicide The baseball attack is being investigated by Connecticut State Police as a homicide. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 20 July 2026 McShane as Detective Ray Dimonte, a seasoned NYPD homicide detective. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 20 July 2026 Our tallest homicide detective—a 6-foot-3 Italian guy built like a power forward—approached him. — Rodney K. Harrison, New York Daily News, 19 July 2026 The killing is the 29th homicide investigated by Oakland Police this year. — Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 19 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for homicide

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The sheriff's office said ballistic testing performed with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives later produced forensic evidence linking the two murders.

— Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Nearly three years after Ebony Duncan vanished after leaving work in Independence, a Jackson County jury has found her former boyfriend guilty of second-degree murder.

— Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 22 July 2026

Definition of murder

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At his funeral back in Chicago, the boy’s mother, Mamie Till, insisted on an open casket so all the world could see what racist murderers had done to her only son.

— Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026
Over the past four seasons, Voit has gone from being a brutal murderer to a key informant for the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit.

— Hedy Phillips, PEOPLE, 23 July 2026

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By the time Cameron came up with the idea for The Terminator — about a robot assassin sent back in time to kill the mother of humanity’s unborn savior — Wisher was growing more interested in screenwriting.

— Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 21 July 2026
Their characters — a notorious assassin and a lawyer — race across Europe, balancing brutal fights and a messy, decades-long friendship.

— Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2026

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