as in genocide
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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Conquest, war, famine and death, disease and pogroms had been the driving forces behind the great migrations in Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
For us as Jews, Easter has far more sinister overtones — of the passages from the Gospels that gave birth to modern antisemitism, of passion plays, pogroms, and emotional fuel for the literal fires that consumed our people.
—Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
This perception was integral to the hate that motivated mass violence in Europe as late as the 19th and 20th centuries, including pogroms in Russia and even Nazi genocide.
—Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
The killings, which began with clashes between Assad loyalists and pro-government forces, turned into an all-out sectarian pogrom targeting Alawites, members of an Islamic sect who dominate Syria’s coastal regions and are viewed by some Muslims as apostates.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
For us as Jews, Easter has far more sinister overtones — of the passages from the Gospels that gave birth to modern antisemitism, of passion plays, pogroms, and emotional fuel for the literal fires that consumed our people.
—Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
This perception was integral to the hate that motivated mass violence in Europe as late as the 19th and 20th centuries, including pogroms in Russia and even Nazi genocide.
—Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
The killings, which began with clashes between Assad loyalists and pro-government forces, turned into an all-out sectarian pogrom targeting Alawites, members of an Islamic sect who dominate Syria’s coastal regions and are viewed by some Muslims as apostates.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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Orlov also pointed her to Voit's location, leading to the hospital massacre and her abduction of Voit and Dr. Ochoa.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
10 July 2025
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The season traces the brutal machinery of empire: propaganda, collaborators, betrayal and the looming massacre of civilians on Ghorman, a peaceful planet crushed for daring to protest.—
Los Angeles Times Staff,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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The first half begins in Poland, where seven-year-old Jakob Beer is the sole member of his Jewish family to survive the Nazis’ brutal slaughter.—
Mia Barzilay Freund,
Vogue,
7 July 2025
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Jess remembers her first on-farm slaughter years ago when a female spooked and tore through the woods.—
Bennet Goldstein,
jsonline.com,
4 July 2025
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The mostly impressionistic plot centers a French woman visiting Hiroshima to film an anti-nuclear war film—a postmortem attempt at documenting Japan’s holocaust.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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During the holocaust [sic] our grandparents would have been delighted if people in the free world had stood up for them.—
Ben Sales,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2025
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In the end, yield-chasing retail investors absorbed much of the carnage.—
Roomy Khan,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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But close to daybreak, a German warplane bombed the chateau, leaving a crater in the earth and a trail of carnage.—
Amy Sohn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
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