self-murders

Definition of self-murdersnext
plural of self-murder
as in suicides
the act of deliberately killing oneself how to deter terrorists who are willing to commit self-murder as well as the mass murder of innocent people

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suicides
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  • OpenAI also faces lawsuits from multiple families who allege ChatGPT encouraged their children’s suicides.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 29 Apr. 2026
  • ChatGPT — and users’ extraordinarily intimate relationships with it — is also linked to numerous teen and adult suicides.
    Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 29 Apr. 2026
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“Self-murders.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-murders. Accessed 3 May. 2026.

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