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Recent Examples of regicide
With examples drawn from Scripture and across the length of history, Paine commits rhetorical regicide.
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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
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
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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
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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
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Pancakes and parricide, anyone?—
Joanna O'Leary,
Chron,
24 Jan. 2021
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The Willoughbys Rated PG for sugarcoated parricide.—
Natalia Winkelman,
New York Times,
22 Apr. 2020
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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But Iran did little to stop the fratricide.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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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
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And then, in the context of being accused for murder, everything was just highlighted.—
Antonia Blyth,
Deadline,
11 Nov. 2025
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The film tells the story of Christy Martin, a pioneering American boxer, who survived a murder attempt by her trainer-spouse.—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The man's identity has not been released, and authorities declined to comment on the homicide investigation that led to his warrant.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
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Pacheco-Meza was charged with reckless homicide and driving under the influence, while Morales-Martinez was charged with drug possession and a weapons offense.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The case centered on the 2012 slaying of Stephanie Ulette Clayton, a 35-year-old mother of a 9-year-old daughter at the time and two other children.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
5 Nov. 2025
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At the outset of the series, Goldman explains how he, like many others, had long been convinced of Michael Skakel’s guilt in Moxley’s brutal slaying (hence the title of the podcast).—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
28 Oct. 2025
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
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“Regicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regicide. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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