suicide
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Beginning around 2010, there was a rapid increase in anxiety, depression and suicide among kids in the United States.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
One of the main ways the body eliminates unwanted cells is through apoptosis, a carefully controlled form of cellular "suicide."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
The Swedish American Investment Corp. put most of its assets under the sway of Ivar Kreuger, an aggressive dealmaker who later died in an apparent suicide after his business empire crumbled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
A national men's mental health and suicide prevention charity marking its 10-year anniversary is expanding further in Devon.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
My name is Mrs. Sweet and I’m a member of the suicide prevention/grief counseling team that has been brought in to help you through this crisis.
From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper
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It claims more than half of police suicides - 32 out of 55 - recorded across the UK from 2022-24 involved officers under investigation.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Local human-rights groups have tied excessive microfinance debt to suicides, migration, child labor and decreased food consumption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Police officers are now required to check for a history of domestic abuse in suicides and other unexpected deaths.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
In July, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order to address “the alarming rise in suicides and disconnection among California’s young men and boys.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
The last time I ran this fast, Coach was making us do suicides.
From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas
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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
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
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
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