as in murder
the act of deliberately killing oneself
teenagers are more prone to suicide because they mistakenly believe their troubles are insurmountable
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Noun
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Smith was convicted of one count each of second-degree murder, a grossly negligent act causing miscarriage/stillbirth, and fleeing police, causing serious bodily injury, as well as two counts of reckless driving, according to online court records.—
Christina Hall,
Freep.com,
25 July 2025 -
Morphew was indicted by a grand jury in Colorado on charges of murder in the first degree June 20 after the Mother's Day 2020 disappearance of his wife, Suzanne Morphew, the mother of two daughters.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
25 July 2025
Verb
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For example, a business might choose to cut down on flights by grouping client visits into one trip rather than going back and forth to the same area.—
Egor Karpovich,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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William Franklyn-Miller will be cutting down the cherry tree.—
Borys Kit,
HollywoodReporter,
17 July 2025
Noun
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The self-destruction of American power in the Trump years is likely to puzzle future historians.—
KORI SCHAKE,
Foreign Affairs,
24 June 2025
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Betting against Musk has become a high-risk proposition, bordering on financial self-destruction.—
Joel Shulman,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
Verb
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Update your profile headline to include your target client Your LinkedIn headline is so important and most people waste on job titles.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Coach Mario Cristobal wasted little time reforming the group that handicapped his team a year ago.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
24 July 2025
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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
Verb
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Acheulean tools were known for more refined hand axes that had a pear or teardrop shape and were better at butchering wild game.—
Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
3 July 2025
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For nearly half a century, Iran has been a thorn in the side of the world, killing and maiming American soldiers, butchering Israeli citizens, threatening its neighbors and fostering terror around the world.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
26 June 2025
Noun
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The ceremony Khamenei attended commemorates the 7th century martyrdom of Prophet Muhammad's grandson Hussein, a pivotal event in Shiite Islam that created the historic rift between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 July 2025
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Losing a friend side by side in a gunfight often meant pursuing vengeance in his memory, taking care not to squander his martyrdom.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 July 2025
Verb
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Current boyfriend Oli Green is up to snuff in a regulation dark City-of-London/Wall-Street let’s-argue-about-the-tariffs suit, but the suit has got a hellish job of work boosting Green even so much as a few months older than his 28 years.—
Guy Martin,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
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By 2023, several Ohio cities had passed ordinances that regulated how flavored tobacco products were sold to snuff out swelling teen use of the products.—
Bethany Bruner,
The Enquirer,
9 July 2025
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“Suicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suicide. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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