ethnic cleansing
noun
: the expulsion, imprisonment, or killing of an ethnic minority by a dominant majority in order to achieve ethnic homogeneity
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And what has really changed is that ethnic cleansing has become a part of the mainstream public discourse.
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Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
Follows four Armenian women fighting the erasure and ethnic cleansing of their homeland of Artsakh.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Past examples include conflict management in the Kurdish region of Turkey, Chechnya under Russian control and the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh.
—Dana El Kurd, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
His Zen talk now masked his indecision, and he’d been supplanted by an unsettling, de-aged digital doppelgänger hellbent on a campaign of conquest and the Tron equivalent of ethnic cleansing.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
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Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025
Follows four Armenian women fighting the erasure and ethnic cleansing of their homeland of Artsakh.
—Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Past examples include conflict management in the Kurdish region of Turkey, Chechnya under Russian control and the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh.
—Dana El Kurd, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
His Zen talk now masked his indecision, and he’d been supplanted by an unsettling, de-aged digital doppelgänger hellbent on a campaign of conquest and the Tron equivalent of ethnic cleansing.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Ethnic cleansing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethnic%20cleansing. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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