: 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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Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
The investigation has been extended until July, which will mark the 85th anniversary of the pogrom.
—Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
Batra left India in the 1980s, after her parents were murdered during a state pogrom against Sikhs, according to the Texas Observer.
—Brooke Migdon, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
Four months after Evian, the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a Jewish youth whose family had just been expelled from Germany became the pretext for the Nazi pogrom known as Kristallnacht.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026
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Most Jews in South Africa came from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia—escaping pogroms and the restrictions on their lives imposed by Czarist Russia, and attracted to South Africa by reports of newfound wealth.
—Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
The investigation has been extended until July, which will mark the 85th anniversary of the pogrom.
—Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026
Batra left India in the 1980s, after her parents were murdered during a state pogrom against Sikhs, according to the Texas Observer.
—Brooke Migdon, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
Four months after Evian, the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a Jewish youth whose family had just been expelled from Germany became the pretext for the Nazi pogrom known as Kristallnacht.
—George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for pogrom
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 17 May. 2026.
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