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take someone's life

  1. take one's life in one's hands . Take a serious risk, as in Climbing without oxygen is really taking your life in your hands .

  2. Kill someone, as in They argued about invoking the death penalty for taking someone's life . [c. 1300]

  3. take one's own life . Commit suicide, as in Most churches have long opposed taking one's own life . [First half of 1900s]



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Stephanie McDonagh said: "We don't know if it was provoked or self-defence. Regardless of what happened, that doesn't give someone the right to take someone's life."

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ā€œBut at the same time, you do have these absolute nonsense, out-of-nowhere, irresponsible people, it almost makes me wonder if they realize that they have the potential to take someoneā€™s life away.ā€

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Mills said, urging New Yorkers in a similar situation: ā€œDonā€™t attack. Donā€™t choke. Donā€™t kill. Donā€™t take someoneā€™s life. Donā€™t take someoneā€™s loved one from them because theyā€™re in a bad place.ā€

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ā€œCriminal justice reform shouldnā€™t mean that there is no accountability and that you can brutally take someoneā€™s life and get a slap on the wrist.ā€

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ā€œI beg you all to consider your words before you speak them for someone may use those words to justify action, action that may take someoneā€™s life.ā€

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