regicide

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Recent Examples of regicide 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 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
Noun
  • 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
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • In February 2025, the driver pleaded guilty to negligent vehicular homicide and drugged driving with a minor passenger – and now faces up to 10 years behind bars.
    Andrew Yockey, The Conversation, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Anyone with information regarding the man’s death can contact homicide detectives at 816-234-5043 or the anonymous TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Panthers fire employee over social media post The Carolina Panthers' communications coordinator was reportedly fired for Instagram posts apparently referencing Kirk's slaying.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Two other people were detained by authorities in connection with Kirk's slaying on Wednesday but were later released without being charged.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 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

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“Regicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regicide. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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