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
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
Tragedies that prompted action The shift follows lawsuits tied to teen suicides.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
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
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Stockyards Hotel – Fort Worth Built in 1913, the Stockyards Hotel has seen many murders and suicides.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
Tragedies that prompted action The shift follows lawsuits tied to teen suicides.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suicides
murders
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His victims varied, first a young family, then women of varying ages and economic backgrounds — sometimes going years between murders.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2025
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According to the case's probable cause affidavit, which was reviewed by PEOPLE, Kohberger was caught after a sheath of the knife used in the murders was left at the scene in the bed where Mogen and Goncalves were found.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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“Suicides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicides. Accessed 13 Oct. 2025.
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