suicide
Example Sentences
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Islamabad said the attacks targeted seven alleged militant camps and hideouts near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and that they had been launched after recent suicide bombings in Pakistan.
From BBC
Islamabad launched the strikes after a suicide blast at a Shiite mosque in Islamabad two weeks ago and other such attacks more recently in northwestern Pakistan.
From Barron's
The unrelenting, full-tilt brutality of this “Wuthering Heights,” according to Brontë historian Samantha Ellis, led one critic to assert, “How a human being could have attempted such a book . . . without committing suicide . . . is a mystery.”
From Salon
Only after the medical examiner advised his family that it might be a homicide, did ICE officials allege a suicide attempt.
From Salon
He died in jail in New York in what was ruled a suicide by the city’s medical examiner.
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