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
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Dexter rushes Harrison out of the Prater compound and proceeds to prep Prater for his slaying.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • One of them recorded the slaying on video, according to the local sheriff – a brutal and confusing fact for Lindsey.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 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

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“Regicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regicide. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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