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murder

It was ruled justifiable homicide.

A weapon registered to you was confiscated at a homicide.
J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death

homicide = murder

I had been charged with DWI and vehicular homicide,
Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger

homicide = murder

the caption that labeled her the top homicide investigator in the city.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death

homicide = murder

You're a homicide detective.
J.D. Robb -- Immortal in Death

homicide = murder

Mistreatment of children, negligent homicide. those videos of Bonzo's and Stilson's deaths were pretty gruesome.
Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
But there is an extremely fine line between a suicide and a homicide.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
I'm telling you, I can't have any more flower homicides on my conscience, I said.
Lauren Oliver -- Before I Fall
One minute homicide, the next minute tea?
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
This case is now classified as a homicide.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
There were also two officers from the Homicide Squad, who took photographs of the wedding couple.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
However fugitive this homicide flash, Felton saw it, and started as if its light had revealed the abysses of this woman's heart.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
We are not concerned with an act of homicide committed on a sudden impulse which might serve as extenuation.
Albert Camus -- The Stranger
But he had not seen a homicide since the Hendrasen girl, and he did not want to see one now.
Stephen King -- Cujo
But surely Budd purposed neither mutiny nor homicide.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
We only know that the homicides and those who didn't confess were turned back; and you say that Galahad, Bors, and Percivale were allowed.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
More murders are committed in Texas than any other state, and more homicides occur in Dallas than anywhere else in Texas.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
I stand up straighter, make myself focus my eyes before this turns into a homicide.
Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
The noise of the cicadas was enough to drive you to homicide.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Bean Trees
Duntz agrees with him; having studied the files on unsolved Las Vegas homicides, he knows Smith to be innocent of this particular deed.
Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood

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