: 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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Nathan Diament, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
Concord led to our own brand of movies, forged not by old American wealth but by entrepreneurial immigrants from Eastern Europe, many of them Jews escaping pogroms throughout that part of the world: Louis B. Meyer (MGM), Adolph Zukor (Paramount), The Warner Brothers and more.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
The Arab revolt was eventually put down, and Husseini fled to Nazi Germany — but not before inciting another pogrom in Baghdad, Iraq.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
But if sectarian pogroms continue on his watch, those assurances will start to look hollow.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
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Noun
This was a natural home base for immigrant Jews fleeing the ghettos and pogroms of Europe.
—Nathan Diament, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
Concord led to our own brand of movies, forged not by old American wealth but by entrepreneurial immigrants from Eastern Europe, many of them Jews escaping pogroms throughout that part of the world: Louis B. Meyer (MGM), Adolph Zukor (Paramount), The Warner Brothers and more.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
The Arab revolt was eventually put down, and Husseini fled to Nazi Germany — but not before inciting another pogrom in Baghdad, Iraq.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
But if sectarian pogroms continue on his watch, those assurances will start to look hollow.
—Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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