patricide

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Recent Examples of patricide 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 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 The movie includes intense domestic abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), gun violence, death and descriptions of patricide. Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024 The patricide was covered in lurid detail in the press. Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023 Within her extended Olympian family – forged in patricide and infidelity – she’s known as the trashy one. Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 May 2023 Of course, the paradox doesn’t apply just to instances of grand-patricide, but to all hypothetical situations where a time traveler goes back to prevent something from occurring. Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for patricide
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pancakes and parricide, anyone?
    Joanna O'Leary, Chron, 24 Jan. 2021
  • The Willoughbys Rated PG for sugarcoated parricide.
    Natalia Winkelman, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
Noun
  • With examples drawn from Scripture and across the length of history, Paine commits rhetorical regicide.
    Matthew Redmond August 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • But Iran did little to stop the fratricide.
    Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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“Patricide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patricide. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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