: 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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Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
The pogroms—incidents of blood, rape, and murder that took the lives of tens and tens of thousands of Jews over centuries in Europe's east—drove them west and to America.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
So Maryam fled to neighboring Chad and is one of more than 10 million Sudanese who have been forcibly displaced since a civil war began last year in the country and ignited pogroms against Black African ethnic groups like hers.
—Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
Modi still has yet to face any real accountability for enabling an anti-Muslim pogrom in 2002.
—Rasheed Ahmed, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
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Noun
World leaders condemn attacks as 'antisemitic' The riots prompted widespread condemnation from leaders around the world, some of whom characterized them as antisemitic attacks and likened them to pogroms, violent attacks on Jews, before and during the Holocaust.
—Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
The pogroms—incidents of blood, rape, and murder that took the lives of tens and tens of thousands of Jews over centuries in Europe's east—drove them west and to America.
—Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
So Maryam fled to neighboring Chad and is one of more than 10 million Sudanese who have been forcibly displaced since a civil war began last year in the country and ignited pogroms against Black African ethnic groups like hers.
—Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 21 Sep. 2024
Modi still has yet to face any real accountability for enabling an anti-Muslim pogrom in 2002.
—Rasheed Ahmed, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.
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