suicide
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And during Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch’s 2017 confirmation hearings, some media outlets claimed that President Donald Trump’s nominee had plagiarized parts of his 2006 book about assisted suicide.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
In both alleged letters, Harp reflects on her father’s suicide and thanks Trump for “always being there for me” as her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.”
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
Twisha's family lawyer Ankur Pandey told BBC Hindi that since the CBI has invoked sections related to abetment to suicide, "it means that the investigation has considered the death to be an alleged suicide".
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Nitrite and nitrate testing is not routinely required in every suspected suicide, making it difficult to determine exactly how many deaths are associated with the chemical.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026
Whether Blanche died as a result of treatments designed to cure an illness that would eventually become known as schizophrenia or from suicide or another cause altogether was known only to her doctors and family.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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She could write and she wrote a great deal, including detective fiction, a gothic thriller “of devilry, seduction, and hashish” and stories about “ghosts, suicides, and kidnapping.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Chief constables have also recently announced that all forces will introduce mandatory recording of police officer suicides.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
The Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission will probe the county’s Correctional Health Services during its next meeting, specifically eight suicides and 10 drug-related deaths that occurred in 2025, said Hans Johnson, commission chair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
In 1955 John Kenneth Galbraith punctured one of the strangely enduring myths about the aftermath: that there was a wave of suicides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
With the nation’s economic depression growing ever more profound—banks failing, suicides multiplying—it seemed an impossibility.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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The same goes for so much of Picasso's art – from his homage to a suicided young friend, The Death of Casagemas, to his last desperate self-portraits.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2013
Yes, surely;—and introducing, we remark withal, the "New Era," of Philanthropy, Enlightenment and so much else; with French Revolution, and a "world well suicided" hanging in the rear!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Thomas Carlyle
I could easily have fancied myself a tourist, especially so at Matachin when "Mac" solemnly attempted to "spring" on me the old tourist hoax of suicided Chinamen as the derivation of the town's name.
From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Harry Alverson Franck
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