as in genocide
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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Recent Examples of pogrom
Noting that her grandparents had escaped pogroms in Russia, Goldin remarked that the events in Gaza reminded her of those pogroms.
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News Desk, Artforum, 25 Nov. 2024
But pioneering Zionist settlement in Palestine began as a secularist revolution against religious Diaspora parochialism as much as against pogroms.
—Bernard Avishai, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Hamas began this war on Oct. 7, 2023, with a pogrom against Israel, murdering, raping, burning, kidnapping.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
In fact, most scholars agree that a pogrom could be perpetrated by Jews.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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News Desk, Artforum, 25 Nov. 2024
But pioneering Zionist settlement in Palestine began as a secularist revolution against religious Diaspora parochialism as much as against pogroms.
—Bernard Avishai, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Hamas began this war on Oct. 7, 2023, with a pogrom against Israel, murdering, raping, burning, kidnapping.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
In fact, most scholars agree that a pogrom could be perpetrated by Jews.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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Guttmann was most recently co-producer of Oscar nominee and ten-time German Film Award nominee September 5, about the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympic Games.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2025
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Related article Haiti gang massacre leaves over 180 dead after Voodoo accusations, say UN and rights groups Forces from the MSS and the Haitian National Police earlier carried out a search and rescue operation to locate the officer, Kenya’s National Police Service said.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
26 Mar. 2025
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Here, Munir may be vaccinating chickens rather than grabbing them on their way to slaughter, but the work is just as thankless and cruel.—
Bartolomeo Sala,
The Dial,
27 Mar. 2025
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Some conservationists say the slaughter is cruel and unnecessary.—
Prianka Srinivasan Matthew Abbott,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Mark Settle is a seven time CIO and the author of two books on IT management. 66 million years ago an asteroid collided with the Earth triggering an environmental holocaust that killed the dinosaurs roaming our planet.—
Mark Settle,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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But in the two or three minutes since his initial departure, the fiery holocaust had somehow become even more deadly.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Rolling Stone,
13 Feb. 2025
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Her concern over both the animals and the big picture, not to mention her frustration and anger over what legacies of long-grift greed have wrought, offers the tiniest beacon of feeling in a film preoccupied with teeing up some frankly unimpressive carnage.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
28 Mar. 2025
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That image is a little haunting today, given the city’s recent wildfire carnage, but that emergent feeling adds to the haunted mood pervading The Studio.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pogrom. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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