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Recent Examples of regicide
The radical shifts in France — regicide, the Committee of Public Safety’s terror, and expansionist campaigns — dissolved the moral and practical basis for the alliance.
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Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
With examples drawn from Scripture and across the length of history, Paine commits rhetorical regicide.
—Matthew Redmond
august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
The raw power grab that excites Lady Macbeth and incites her husband to regicide feels especially pertinent now, when the dangers of autocracy loom over political discussions.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
The convulsions of 17th-century England are familiar: a civil war, a regicide and, eventually, a restoration of the monarchy.
—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
Stephen Root, in a single scene as Porter, lifts the grim, forensic business of regicide and its aftermath into the realm of knockabout farce.
—New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
Sure, there was a Hamlet-esque regicide plotline among some lions.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
But regulatory moves can often take months or years to come into full effect, so a short-term prediction need not account for every possibility.
King Coal’s regicide?
—Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 11 July 2018
Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2026
With examples drawn from Scripture and across the length of history, Paine commits rhetorical regicide.
—Matthew Redmond
august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
The raw power grab that excites Lady Macbeth and incites her husband to regicide feels especially pertinent now, when the dangers of autocracy loom over political discussions.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance.
—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 19 Jan. 2023
The convulsions of 17th-century England are familiar: a civil war, a regicide and, eventually, a restoration of the monarchy.
—Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2022
Stephen Root, in a single scene as Porter, lifts the grim, forensic business of regicide and its aftermath into the realm of knockabout farce.
—New York Times, 22 Dec. 2021
Sure, there was a Hamlet-esque regicide plotline among some lions.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
But regulatory moves can often take months or years to come into full effect, so a short-term prediction need not account for every possibility.
King Coal’s regicide?
—Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 11 July 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regicide
Noun
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The second season’s focus on the Menendez brothers’ patricide is loud, confrontational, and approaches the case from multiple perspectives at once, which can either come across as daring or incoherent.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
24 May 2025
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When Joe is implicated in financial misdeeds connected to land deals conducted on the tribe’s behalf, Mack seizes upon the news to banish Joe from the reservation, a symbolic patricide also intended to damage Gloria’s campaign.—
Christopher Sorrentino,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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This is what's known as a parricide, where somebody kills their parents.—
Lori A Bashian , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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The double killing of one's parents, known as parricide, is a rare event, according to Dr. Kathleen Heide, Ph.D., professor of criminology at the University of South Florida and author of Why Kids Kill Parents: Child Abuse and Adolescent Homicide.—
Gillian Telling,
PEOPLE,
23 Dec. 2025
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In the illuminated texts of the medieval and early Renaissance periods, artists decided to rachet up the horrors of Agrippina’s matricide.—
Diana Arterian
June 16,
Literary Hub,
16 June 2025
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Several generate physical action that, besides wickedness, is driven by rage — fights, accidents, assaults, pederasty, filicide, matricide.—
Stuart Dybek,
New York Times,
10 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But Iran did little to stop the fratricide.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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But what is absolutely clear to me right now is that this Israeli government is committing suicide, homicide and fratricide.—
Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
28 Aug. 2025
Noun
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As teens, both were prosecuted in adult court for murder.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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William Brock, 83, was sentenced this week to 21 years to life for murder, felonious assault and kidnapping in Toland-Hall’s killing.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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This is the second mass homicide in British Columbia in less than a year.—
Lex Harvey,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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What led to Cruz’s slaying years later is not immediately clear.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Feb. 2026
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The slaying dramatized the perils faced by journalists in Mexico, where scores have been slain in recent years.—
Foreign Correspondent,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Several generate physical action that, besides wickedness, is driven by rage — fights, accidents, assaults, pederasty, filicide, matricide.—
Stuart Dybek,
New York Times,
10 Feb. 2025
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One study of maternal filicide observed that, whereas psychotic mothers often acted suddenly, depressed mothers tended to contemplate killing their children for days or weeks before acting.—
Eren Orbey,
The New Yorker,
14 Oct. 2024
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“Regicide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regicide. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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