autocide
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of autocide
Example Sentences
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Though circumstantial evidence is strong, proving that autocide actually does occur has been difficult.
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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.
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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%.
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Because it cannot be clearly labeled, autocide not only avoids the social stigma attached to suicide, but also, as Arthur Miller's Willy Loman realized, almost automatically guarantees double indemnity on most life-insurance policies.
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