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Recent Examples of regicide
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.
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Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
The convulsions of 17th-century England are familiar: a civil war, a regicide and, eventually, a restoration of the monarchy.
—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
Stephen Root, in a single scene as Porter, lifts the grim, forensic business of regicide and its aftermath into the realm of knockabout farce.
—New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
Sure, there was a Hamlet-esque regicide plotline among some lions.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
But regulatory moves can often take months or years to come into full effect, so a short-term prediction need not account for every possibility.
King Coal’s regicide?
—Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 11 July 2018
Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
The convulsions of 17th-century England are familiar: a civil war, a regicide and, eventually, a restoration of the monarchy.
—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
Stephen Root, in a single scene as Porter, lifts the grim, forensic business of regicide and its aftermath into the realm of knockabout farce.
—New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
Sure, there was a Hamlet-esque regicide plotline among some lions.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
But regulatory moves can often take months or years to come into full effect, so a short-term prediction need not account for every possibility.
King Coal’s regicide?
—Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 11 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regicide
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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
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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
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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
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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 thing that struck most reporters was her apparent lack of remorse or grief over this rare crime — matricide, the murder of a mother by her biological child.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
28 Dec. 2024
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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
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Here, Hamlet is a melancholy suburban prince named Juicy, in a Black family rocked by betrayal and fratricide and ghosts who pop out of backyard grills.—
Chris Richards,
Washington Post,
19 Oct. 2023
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The 18-year-old, who was released from custody last month after posting a $250,000 bond, is charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf, 17, on April 2 at a track meet in the Dallas suburb of Frisco.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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The former Minneapolis police officer is currently serving a 22-and-a-half-year state sentence for the second-degree unintentional murder of 46-year-old George Floyd.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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The advisory, which was published on May 7, says that petty crime, violent crime, armed robbery, and homicide are on the rise in Cuba.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
14 May 2025
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Police are investigating the woman’s death as a homicide, and no suspect information has been released.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
14 May 2025
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California Serial cat killer suspect arrested, potentially linked to a dozen-plus slayings, authorities say April 23, 2025 Authorities allege that Acosta was also seen by a neighbor grabbing a cat and slamming it over his head April 3.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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Citywide, murders are down 26%, with 104 slayings so far this year compared to 140 by this time last year.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
22 May 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
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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
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“Regicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regicide. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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