: 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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Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Lesser recounted his story of survival, detailing how his family evaded the Krakow Ghetto, escaped a Nazi pogrom, and endured the Bochnia Ghetto, according to a news release.
—Dawn Giangiulio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
The violence quickly escalated nationwide, with ultranationalist groups and gangs organizing further attacks across several cities, prompting some Turkish outlets to characterize the events as pogroms.
—Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Israel was formed by Jews who saw the region as their historical homeland and who were fleeing persecution, pogroms, and the Holocaust in Europe, and persecution throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
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Its residents have burned Palestinian olive groves, cars, homes, and mosques, and rampaged through villages in deadly attacks that even some Israeli officials have felt comfortable calling pogroms.
—Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
Lesser recounted his story of survival, detailing how his family evaded the Krakow Ghetto, escaped a Nazi pogrom, and endured the Bochnia Ghetto, according to a news release.
—Dawn Giangiulio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
The violence quickly escalated nationwide, with ultranationalist groups and gangs organizing further attacks across several cities, prompting some Turkish outlets to characterize the events as pogroms.
—Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Israel was formed by Jews who saw the region as their historical homeland and who were fleeing persecution, pogroms, and the Holocaust in Europe, and persecution throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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