homicides

noun

plural of homicide
1
as in murders
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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as in murderers
a person who kills another person throughout the ages society has stigmatized the homicide

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Recent Examples of homicides He was initially charged with two counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances relating to multiple homicides, allowing the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office to seek a sentence of life without parole upon conviction. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026 DeKalb County Police say crimes against people are down 13 percent, with a three percent decrease in homicides. — Monique John, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 In total, there were 46 homicides during that time period in 2026 compared to 82 in 2025. — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2026 While homicides are down this year, violent crime is actually up compared to 2025, according to data from the city. — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 11 Aug. 2026 The data does show homicides are down — 67 cases this year, compared to 97 on this date in 2025 — but the summer has seen a dramatic increase. — Mike Stunson, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026 The killings mark the fourth and fifth homicides of the year in New Haven. — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026 That was preceded by work in Chicago investigating white-collar misconduct for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and an earlier job investigating police misconduct and homicides in that city. — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 Environmental features and geography may be a better predictor of homicides in Latin America than the prevalence of organized crime gangs. — Dylan Spencer, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for homicides
  1. murders
  2. murderers
  3. killings
  4. assassins
Noun
  • Buffett, an actress, was not accused of carrying out the murders or helping her then-fiancé, Daniel Wozniak, commit them.
    — Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Prosecutors allege that Clancy methodically planned the murders by sending her husband to pick up medication and takeout, and then strangling the children with exercise bands at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home while he was gone.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of murders
Noun
  • The statement came after Roth detailed a sequence in the film to Polygon that features a cartoon that seemingly hypnotizes children, turning them into murderers.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Not only did the scale of the broader violence across the South indicate a campaign to mass-murder an ethnic subgroup for political purposes, but Tillman, perhaps the most infamous of the Hamburg murderers, never denied the attack’s goals.
    — Jacob Ware, The Conversation, 31 July 2026
Definition of murderers
Noun
  • The Johnson County District Court sentenced Robinson to death for the killings of two women and to life in prison in Kansas for the killing of a third.
    — Alexa Newsom, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
  • Myung Jin Kim, 31, was wanted in connection with two killings, including a botched murder-for-hire plot in San Jose in 2016 and the killing of Kim’s friend in the parking lot of a CVS in Westminster two years later.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
Definition of killings
Noun
  • Many of Ellis’s most awful characters are the most conventionally attractive, their looks serving as a shield against their various crimes; Murphy co-created The Beauty, in which tech moguls and assassins kill to be beautiful.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Authorities were seeking both the assassins and masterminds of the crime, according to the president.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026
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“Homicides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homicides. Accessed 13 Aug. 2026.

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