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suicide

Definition for suicide

noun as in self-murder

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There was no such list, it announced, and Epstein definitely committed suicide and wasn’t, as the conspiracy-minded suggest, murdered by those wishing to silence him.

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Massoud was later killed by an al-Qaeda suicide squad in 2001, two days before the 9/11 attacks on New York.

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It turns out the man terrorizing parents with lyrics about devils and suicide was fairly terrified himself.

While it initially focused on broadcast shows, the group went after others, including Netflix when it offered the show “13 Reasons Why,” based on a book about a 17-year-old girl who died by suicide.

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Seven days later their bodies are found hundreds of miles away, side by side on an empty stretch of beach in an apparent double suicide.

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

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