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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.
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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
But Dwight picks the fight by almost immediately accusing Chickie of patricide, which happens to be true but won’t win you any brownie points, for sure.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
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
It’s done in the saddest way, with the original sin of patricide.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Feb. 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
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
But Dwight picks the fight by almost immediately accusing Chickie of patricide, which happens to be true but won’t win you any brownie points, for sure.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
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
It’s done in the saddest way, with the original sin of patricide.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Feb. 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
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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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Macron’s ascent to the presidency began, like a certain Greek tragedy, with parricide.—
Arthur Goldhammer,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2018
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Pancakes and parricide, anyone?—
Joanna O'Leary,
Chron,
24 Jan. 2021
Noun
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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
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Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance.—
Stephen Collinson,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2023
Noun
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The place where Dante cast endless sinners, upside down in hellholes of their own carving, or in the tangled forest of suicides, or with the fratricides in the ninth circle, all of them eternally condemned.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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The fratricide overshadowed Caracalla’s achievements, including the passage of an edict granting all free men in the Roman Empire citizenship and the construction of a luxurious public bath complex that bore the emperor’s name.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Nov. 2024
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 show’s title refers to these haunting clues — a sequence of nine puzzle pieces, each foretelling a new murder, and each fitting into a larger picture that gradually reveals the truth behind a decade-old cover-up.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
19 June 2025
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Court officials reviewed YouTube footage and charged Troconis with criminal contempt of court, a misdemeanor, on the same day she was convicted of helping her boyfriend execute and cover up his wife’s murder.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
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“Patricide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patricide. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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