homicides
- plural of homicide.
Example Sentences
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None of the agencies I contacted for this story replied to my inquiries about the status of the investigations—which, as with all unsolved homicides, officially remain open.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The number of homicides dropped from 1,666 to 1,374 last year, a 17.5% decrease, according to statistics from the state Department of Justice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Then-Mayor Rodrigo Guerrero, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist, began treating homicides as a public-health epidemic—mapping violence patterns to deploy police and social programs, a precursor to modern data-driven policing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
Where Americans think of graphically violent procedurals as comfort watches, the British prefer their TV homicides to be much tidier: Serious violence occurs offscreen.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2026
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. homicides involve a gun, a far greater fraction than in other industrialized countries.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
