: an organized massacre of helpless people
specifically
: such a massacre of Jews
pogromed; pogroming; pogroms
: to massacre or destroy in a pogrom
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Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 June 2025
Glass is a human invention, and its breakage is inevitably associated with human violence or a human accident: a burglar’s incursion, a child’s wayward baseball, a pogrom.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
His ancestors fled pogroms in Ukraine to make their fortune in the United States.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Jacobo Timerman, its founding editor, was a committed advocate for human rights and democratic institutions whose family had come to Argentina fleeing pogroms in Ukraine in the late 1920s.
—Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
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The movie tells the story of four tech billionaires gathering together in a mountain retreat while much of the world descends into rioting, populist pogroms, and potential civil war because of a new content-creation tool just released by one of the ...
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 June 2025
Glass is a human invention, and its breakage is inevitably associated with human violence or a human accident: a burglar’s incursion, a child’s wayward baseball, a pogrom.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
His ancestors fled pogroms in Ukraine to make their fortune in the United States.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Jacobo Timerman, its founding editor, was a committed advocate for human rights and democratic institutions whose family had come to Argentina fleeing pogroms in Ukraine in the late 1920s.
—Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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