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Recent Examples of hara-kiri
The film depicts the historical ‘Honno-ji Incident’ from 1582, when a key vassal of Oda Nobunaga rose in revolt and caused his master to commit hara-kiri in Kyoto.
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Mark Schilling, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
Mark Schilling, Variety, 17 Apr. 2023
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Nina Beltran, aka Nina Marano, requested her own disciplinary revocation from the Florida Bar after being arrested and convicted of tampering with a corpse in connection with the October 2021 murder of 23-year-old Marisela Botello-Valdez in Dallas.Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2024
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Progress is being made in the investigation into the unsolved murder of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, those briefed on the investigation told ABC News.Josh Margolin, ABC News, 2 Dec. 2024
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Missing hikers:Hiker who vanished mid-October in frigid Canadian wilderness found alive over a month later Lane-Fournier's husband faces charges After Lane-Fournier's body was found, officials conducted an autopsy and determined the manner of death as homicide.Taylor Ardrey, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
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McIntyre was just 17 in 1994 when he was arrested and charged in connection with a double homicide within hours of the crimes.Heather Hollingsworth, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024
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The ex-wife of a Woodland Hills doctor has been arrested along with four others in his execution-style slaying outside his medical practice this summer, according to police.Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
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The forgery charge relates to his alleged possession of several false identification documents, including one that was allegedly used to check into a hostel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side nearly two weeks before Thompson’s slaying.Dan Mangan, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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But on Wednesday, a grand jury indicted her on the charge of assisting self-murder/manslaughter, a first-degree felony punishable by up to 30 years in prison.Frank Fernandez, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
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The initial charge of first-degree murder has been reduced to assisting self-murder/manslaughter.Frank Fernandez, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
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Police emphasized the unidentified man committed no crime and that Kobayashi is not suspected to be the victim of foul play.Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 7 Dec. 2024
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Blockchain data revealed that 96 percent of the token supply was held by just 10 addresses at launch, fueling allegations of foul play.Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Hara-kiri.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hara-kiri. Accessed 18 Dec. 2024.
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