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Recent Examples of patricide
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.
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Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 May 2025
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
But Dwight picks the fight by almost immediately accusing Chickie of patricide, which happens to be true but won’t win you any brownie points, for sure.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
The movie includes intense domestic abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), gun violence, death and descriptions of patricide.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
It’s done in the saddest way, with the original sin of patricide.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
The patricide was covered in lurid detail in the press.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
Within her extended Olympian family – forged in patricide and infidelity – she’s known as the trashy one.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 May 2023
Of course, the paradox doesn’t apply just to instances of grand-patricide, but to all hypothetical situations where a time traveler goes back to prevent something from occurring.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 May 2025
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
But Dwight picks the fight by almost immediately accusing Chickie of patricide, which happens to be true but won’t win you any brownie points, for sure.
—Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2024
The movie includes intense domestic abuse (verbal, physical and emotional), gun violence, death and descriptions of patricide.
—Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
It’s done in the saddest way, with the original sin of patricide.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2024
The patricide was covered in lurid detail in the press.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
Within her extended Olympian family – forged in patricide and infidelity – she’s known as the trashy one.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 May 2023
Of course, the paradox doesn’t apply just to instances of grand-patricide, but to all hypothetical situations where a time traveler goes back to prevent something from occurring.
—Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for patricide
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 thing that struck most reporters was her apparent lack of remorse or grief over this rare crime — matricide, the murder of a mother by her biological child.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
28 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Macron’s ascent to the presidency began, like a certain Greek tragedy, with parricide.—
Arthur Goldhammer,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2018
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Pancakes and parricide, anyone?—
Joanna O'Leary,
Chron,
24 Jan. 2021
Noun
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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
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Those Tories by the way have a particular penchant for political regicide before voters get the chance.—
Stephen Collinson,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2023
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The fratricide overshadowed Caracalla’s achievements, including the passage of an edict granting all free men in the Roman Empire citizenship and the construction of a luxurious public bath complex that bore the emperor’s name.—
Meilan Solly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Nov. 2024
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Here, Hamlet is a melancholy suburban prince named Juicy, in a Black family rocked by betrayal and fratricide and ghosts who pop out of backyard grills.—
Chris Richards,
Washington Post,
19 Oct. 2023
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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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Elijah Travis Mackey, 23, was found hiding under a stairwell of a nearby motel and taken into custody, then he was charged with murder, according to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Miami Herald,
26 May 2025
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While serving his 30-year murder sentence, Hardin also pleaded guilty to the 1997 rape of an elementary school teacher in Rogers, Ark., 5 News reported.—
Nicole Acosta,
People.com,
26 May 2025
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“Patricide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patricide. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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