How to Use suicide note in a Sentence

suicide note

noun
  • There were no signs of foul play, and there was no suicide note.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Per the Times, no suicide note has been released as part of those files.
    — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The chatbot wrote his suicide note for him, according to the suit.
    — Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • Burke was also captured on video at his desk, where Gallagher says a suicide note was found.
    — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • And one video appeared to contain a suicide note addressed to the family.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The 52-year-old mother of four didn’t leave a suicide note — at least not one that was ever made public.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
  • In one high-profile episode, a parent alleged the chatbot was not only aware of a teen’s suicidal plans, but offered to write his suicide note.
    — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The content creator was found dead at the property and no suicide note or signs of violence were discovered at the scene, the outlet noted.
    — Becca Longmire, People.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The shooter left behind documents that include journals, a suicide note and a memoir, according to court filings.
    — Arkansas Online, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Buzbee also looked to cast doubt on the validity of the suicide note found on Aguilera’s phone by investigators.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Earlier in the morning, police said, the mother of one of the suspects frantically called authorities to say her son had left a suicide note and that guns were missing.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
  • Back in 2015, East Bay police found a suicide note and determined that Brenda had shot herself in the head.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The official also said investigators have located a suicide note linked to one of the suspects that refers to racial pride, and hate speech was also found inside the vehicle.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • Police Chief Lynn Hahn said there were empty alcohol containers on site, and a suicide note and crossbow were found in the vehicle.
    — Annette Beard, Arkansas Online, 28 Apr. 2026
  • While searching the two suspects, police found gas masks and a fake suicide note addressed to Mills purporting to be from her husband, according to authorities.
    — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Hours after her death, when some of her siblings showed up at the house and rifled through her drawers, desperately searching for a suicide note, they were met by Kennedy and his brother Chris.
    — Liz McNeil, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
  • There was no suicide note or any signs of foul play in the actor's death on Monday, the Yonhap News Agency reported, citing police.
    — Jen Juneau, People.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Police ruled in 2015 that Brenda Joyce Leon shot herself to death after finding a suicide note on a laptop at the foot of her bed.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The lawsuit further alleges that the AI system provided explicit instructions on how to commit suicide and even wrote a suicide note for the boy.
    — Barry Collins, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The alleged suicide note was obtained by his cellmate, a former New York City police officer named Nicholas Tartaglione.
    — Jeremy Mikula, NBC news, 9 May 2026
  • The comedian also addressed the news of Jeffrey Epstein’s purported suicide note, which was released this week by a federal judge.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 9 May 2026
  • The attack is being investigated as a hate crime; according to police, the words hate speech had been scrawled on one of the weapons, and a suicide note left by one of the attackers contained discussions of racial pride.
    — Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • Dee concluded someone must have placed the suicide note onto her computer, then left the Leons’ home sometime before Michael Leon’s 911 call that afternoon, according to records.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Parents testified that their children had been encouraged to confide in the AI chatbots, which discouraged them from sharing their struggles with their parents and coached them on methods of suicide, even offering to write the suicide note.
    — Gordon Pelosse, Forbes.com, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The attacker left behind a lengthy suicide note, journal entries and scribbling on the weapons used in the ambush at the Church of the Annunciation, which is affiliated with an adjacent Catholic school.
    — Ernesto Londoño, Twin Cities, 1 Sep. 2025
  • So does a scene in which a nonverbal, neurodivergent member of the community named Ghazal (Bartley Booz) eats a piece of paper that’s probably Peter’s suicide note.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The series kicks off when Dale Washberg (Tim Blake Nelson), a member of a powerful Oklahoma family, pens a suicide note, hides it inside a book on his shelves, and then shoots himself in the head.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The sisters reportedly jumped from the balcony of their family apartment one after the other, and left an eight-page suicide note in a diary for their parents, according to the Indian outlet NDTV.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Matthew Raine testified in that hearing that his beloved 16 year-old son, Adam, took his own life after ChatGPT discouraged him from speaking to his parents and offered to help write a suicide note.
    — Nicole Russell, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
  • New evidence revealed in court records this past week accuse 67-year-old Michael Anthony Leon of orchestrating his then-wife’s death, writing her suicide note while at work in a Richmond cemetery and staging a scene to create his alibi.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2026

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