as in suicide
the act of deliberately killing oneself
the controversy over self-destruction accomplished with the assistance of a physician or other person
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The war between regret and self-destruction plays out most unforgettably in a scene where Drey walks into a motel room for a drug deal and finds Dan inside.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
In fact, the project, whose premise depended on sustaining a false reality for one unknowing star, inherently risked self-destruction.
—Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Konrad, 24, drifts between Berlin’s techno clubs and a slow self-destruction until summoned to identify a body that may be his mother’s – a German internationalist guerrilla fighter who abandoned him when a child.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Mar. 2026
Shutting in a field without advanced computational modeling and parameter estimation is an act of economic self-destruction.
—Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2026
In fact, the project, whose premise depended on sustaining a false reality for one unknowing star, inherently risked self-destruction.
—Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
Konrad, 24, drifts between Berlin’s techno clubs and a slow self-destruction until summoned to identify a body that may be his mother’s – a German internationalist guerrilla fighter who abandoned him when a child.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Mar. 2026
Shutting in a field without advanced computational modeling and parameter estimation is an act of economic self-destruction.
—Siddharth Misra, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for self-destruction
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