as in martyrdoms
the act of deliberately killing oneself
teenagers are more prone to suicide because they mistakenly believe their troubles are insurmountable
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Recent Examples of suicides
Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Stories circulated about heart attacks and suicides, and about elderly people who had given up, exhausted.
—Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
More than 139,000 people died in shootings since 2018, according to GVA data, which does not account for individual suicides.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent lawsuits have also claimed that chatbots played a key role in suicides of young people.
—Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
In recent years, Fort Bragg has seen alarming numbers of suicides, fatal overdoses, soldier-on-soldier murders, and shoot-outs with civilians in nearby Fayetteville, as well as many cases of drug smuggling in the Special Forces and the XVIII Airborne Corps.
—Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Gun homicides have declined since 2021, while suicides continue to make up a majority of gun deaths, Pew Research found.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 17 Sep. 2025
During that time, two of the deaths were confirmed as suicides, which led advocates and local officials to call for additional prevention measures to be implemented at the facility.
—Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Suicide Prevention Efforts Work Interventions that are designed to reduce suicides are generally effective.
—Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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Ninety percent of the suicides were by males, and of the overall suicides, 82% were by White youth, 63% were among people ages 20 to 24 and 69% occurred in a house or apartment, the researchers found.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Stories circulated about heart attacks and suicides, and about elderly people who had given up, exhausted.
—Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
More than 139,000 people died in shootings since 2018, according to GVA data, which does not account for individual suicides.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
Recent lawsuits have also claimed that chatbots played a key role in suicides of young people.
—Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025
In recent years, Fort Bragg has seen alarming numbers of suicides, fatal overdoses, soldier-on-soldier murders, and shoot-outs with civilians in nearby Fayetteville, as well as many cases of drug smuggling in the Special Forces and the XVIII Airborne Corps.
—Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Gun homicides have declined since 2021, while suicides continue to make up a majority of gun deaths, Pew Research found.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 17 Sep. 2025
During that time, two of the deaths were confirmed as suicides, which led advocates and local officials to call for additional prevention measures to be implemented at the facility.
—Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Suicide Prevention Efforts Work Interventions that are designed to reduce suicides are generally effective.
—Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suicides
murders
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In the episode, eight of the nine ringers suffer calamities on the eve of the game which preclude their participation, with Sax held on comically-unfounded suspicion of committing approximately 600 murders in the New York City area.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott, who were teenagers at the time of the murders, were charged and convicted of the killings in 2001 and 2002.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Suicides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicides. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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