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homicide

noun as in killing

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In reality, the limited data on mass shootings and homicide assailants’ gender identities suggests that “trans people make up an insignificant percentage” of perpetrators, Lenning said.

From Salon

That enables me to give the flavor of an actual police investigation without using the myriad individuals who are actually part of a homicide investigation.

A pathologist found they had died by homicide by unspecified means, including the use of Nortriptyline, an antidepressant, the prosecution said.

From BBC

The young artist, in an audacious shot across the art world bow, was engaged in a symbolic act of Oedipal homicide.

The cause of death has not yet been released, but her death is considered a homicide.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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