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
Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Regulators are questioning whether OpenAI has strayed from its original public-benefit mission in favor of commercial growth—recent suicides linked to ChatGPT have also complicated the issue.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
The Nun 2 returns to that formula — Sister Irene is tasked with looking into a string of suicides that seem to be the handiwork of Valak — with a much better sense of pacing and tone than its predecessor.
—Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
About 60% of gun deaths in the United States are suicides with homicides and accidental deaths making up the minority.
—Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
Black girls faced the largest increase in suicides across the city, with rates rising 77% among young Black women under age 20.
—Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Sextortion cases have led to at least 30 deaths by suicides, according to the tallies done by USA Today's in-depth reporting on the topic.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Monk’s death came amid increasing scrutiny on the physical and mental care that inmates received at the Dublin jail, where dozens of people have died over the past decade from overdoses, suicides and medical emergencies.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Teen suicides increased more than 57% between 2007 and 2018, a jump that roughly corresponds to the time frame in which young Americans began spending most of their free time on social media.
—Charlotte Alter, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
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Suicide Prevention Efforts Work Interventions that are designed to reduce suicides are generally effective.
—Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Regulators are questioning whether OpenAI has strayed from its original public-benefit mission in favor of commercial growth—recent suicides linked to ChatGPT have also complicated the issue.
—Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
The Nun 2 returns to that formula — Sister Irene is tasked with looking into a string of suicides that seem to be the handiwork of Valak — with a much better sense of pacing and tone than its predecessor.
—Emily Palmer Heller, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
About 60% of gun deaths in the United States are suicides with homicides and accidental deaths making up the minority.
—Cameron Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
Black girls faced the largest increase in suicides across the city, with rates rising 77% among young Black women under age 20.
—Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
Sextortion cases have led to at least 30 deaths by suicides, according to the tallies done by USA Today's in-depth reporting on the topic.
—Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Monk’s death came amid increasing scrutiny on the physical and mental care that inmates received at the Dublin jail, where dozens of people have died over the past decade from overdoses, suicides and medical emergencies.
—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Teen suicides increased more than 57% between 2007 and 2018, a jump that roughly corresponds to the time frame in which young Americans began spending most of their free time on social media.
—Charlotte Alter, Time, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suicides
murders
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In the laconic tones of a police report, Ibargüengoitia investigates the murders and their motives, the society and the profession - the oldest of all, but no less mysterious for that - which precipitated them.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The 42-year-old has a rap sheet spanning three decades, including two armed robberies in Manhattan just weeks before the murders, FOX 5 reported.—
Bonny Chu,
FOXNews.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Suicides.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicides. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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