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Recent Examples of parricide
Pancakes and parricide, anyone?
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Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 24 Jan. 2021
The Willoughbys Rated PG for sugarcoated parricide.
—Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
Everything seems to be pointing toward parricide, but the future is no simpler than the past.
—Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 2 Jan. 2020
Macron’s ascent to the presidency began, like a certain Greek tragedy, with parricide.
—Arthur Goldhammer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2018
But University of Florida criminologist Kathleen Heide, who specializes in parricide or children who kill their parents, has said that the majority of kids are driven to kill a parent by severe trauma at the hands of that parent.
—Mary Emily O'Hara, NBC News, 22 May 2017
Though parricide is a rare phenomenon, experts say abuse and neglect play a pivotal role in many cases of children who kill their parents.
—Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 21 May 2017
To write in Baldwin’s wake means to displace the father-teacher in a Whitmanesque act of parricide—not to dutifully shoulder the same historical burdens, but to comprehend one’s own historical moment more clearly.
—Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 24 Jan. 2021
The Willoughbys Rated PG for sugarcoated parricide.
—Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
Everything seems to be pointing toward parricide, but the future is no simpler than the past.
—Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 2 Jan. 2020
Macron’s ascent to the presidency began, like a certain Greek tragedy, with parricide.
—Arthur Goldhammer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2018
But University of Florida criminologist Kathleen Heide, who specializes in parricide or children who kill their parents, has said that the majority of kids are driven to kill a parent by severe trauma at the hands of that parent.
—Mary Emily O'Hara, NBC News, 22 May 2017
Though parricide is a rare phenomenon, experts say abuse and neglect play a pivotal role in many cases of children who kill their parents.
—Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 21 May 2017
To write in Baldwin’s wake means to displace the father-teacher in a Whitmanesque act of parricide—not to dutifully shoulder the same historical burdens, but to comprehend one’s own historical moment more clearly.
—Ismail Muhammad, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parricide
Noun
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The second season’s focus on the Menendez brothers’ patricide is loud, confrontational, and approaches the case from multiple perspectives at once, which can either come across as daring or incoherent.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
24 May 2025
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When Joe is implicated in financial misdeeds connected to land deals conducted on the tribe’s behalf, Mack seizes upon the news to banish Joe from the reservation, a symbolic patricide also intended to damage Gloria’s campaign.—
Christopher Sorrentino,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In the illuminated texts of the medieval and early Renaissance periods, artists decided to rachet up the horrors of Agrippina’s matricide.—
Diana Arterian
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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Several generate physical action that, besides wickedness, is driven by rage — fights, accidents, assaults, pederasty, filicide, matricide.—
Stuart Dybek,
New York Times,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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With examples drawn from Scripture and across the length of history, Paine commits rhetorical regicide.—
Matthew Redmond
August 13,
Literary Hub,
13 Aug. 2025
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The raw power grab that excites Lady Macbeth and incites her husband to regicide feels especially pertinent now, when the dangers of autocracy loom over political discussions.—
Peter Marks,
Washington Post,
28 Mar. 2024
Noun
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But Iran did little to stop the fratricide.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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But what is absolutely clear to me right now is that this Israeli government is committing suicide, homicide and fratricide.—
Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Several generate physical action that, besides wickedness, is driven by rage — fights, accidents, assaults, pederasty, filicide, matricide.—
Stuart Dybek,
New York Times,
10 Feb. 2025
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One study of maternal filicide observed that, whereas psychotic mothers often acted suddenly, depressed mothers tended to contemplate killing their children for days or weeks before acting.—
Eren Orbey,
The New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2024
Noun
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The original wording suggesting that Soliman faced murder charges in Iraq had been included in the government’s successful argument for keeping him in custody.—
Hannah Allam,
ProPublica,
10 Sep. 2025
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An argument over a wristwatch led to the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old Dallas mother at Malibu Jack’s amusement park in North Richland Hills, according to new details of the murder investigation released on Tuesday.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Sep. 2025
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Johnson’s dishonesty doesn’t even take into consideration the carnage from the homicides of yesteryear in the Windy City.—
Christopher Tremoglie,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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He was convicted in October 2022 on six counts first-degree intentional homicide, 61 counts of first-degree recklessly endangering safety, six counts of hit and run involving death and two counts of bail jumping, all felonies, plus one count of misdemeanor battery.—
Jim Riccioli,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Parricide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parricide. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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