autocide
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of autocide
Example Sentences
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And yet, his work has an undertone of resilience, if not outright hope, as reflected in his short poem “Autocide”:
From New York Times
Guardrails may prevent the occasional drunk from driving into a ravine, but they obviously don’t stop a significant portion of the population from committing autocide.
From Salon
Though circumstantial evidence is strong, proving that autocide actually does occur has been difficult.
From Time Magazine Archive
No one can know for sure, but more and more police and traffic experts suspect that "autocide," as one expert calls it, is an important cause of traffic deaths.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though all auto deaths have increased by 32% in the past ten years, single-car fatalities that result from collisions with fixed objects�the most likely form of autocide �have jumped 56%.
From Time Magazine Archive
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