as in pogrom
the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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The movie tells the story of four tech billionaires gathering together in a mountain retreat while much of the world descends into rioting, populist pogroms, and potential civil war because of a new content-creation tool just released by one of the ...—
Michael Brendan Dougherty,
National Review,
27 June 2025 -
Glass is a human invention, and its breakage is inevitably associated with human violence or a human accident: a burglar’s incursion, a child’s wayward baseball, a pogrom.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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The massacre of the people of Gaza continues unabated.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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As early as the 1970s, Jordan’s crushing of Palestinian guerrillas prompted the emergence of the Black September organization and the Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.—
HUSSEIN AGHA,
Foreign Affairs,
23 June 2025
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They were all robbed, of very little money, and in three instances, their homes were set ablaze to hide evidence of the slaughter that had taken place inside, authorities said.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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Sequences of compliant sheep, moving to their mechanized slaughter, sometimes cut to scenes of streetwise children, repurposing rubble for games.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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The mostly impressionistic plot centers a French woman visiting Hiroshima to film an anti-nuclear war film—a postmortem attempt at documenting Japan’s holocaust.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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During the holocaust [sic] our grandparents would have been delighted if people in the free world had stood up for them.—
Ben Sales,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2025
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In the end, yield-chasing retail investors absorbed much of the carnage.—
Roomy Khan,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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But close to daybreak, a German warplane bombed the chateau, leaving a crater in the earth and a trail of carnage.—
Amy Sohn,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
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Francisco Javier Sanchez-Juarez, 28, and Jeffrey Josue Diaz, 24, are charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection to the incident.—
Racquel Bazos,
Baltimore Sun,
1 July 2025
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Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office homicide detectives, who took over the case from Florida City police, booked Fisher into Metro West Detention Center on a second-degree murder charge.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2025
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Griffiths brings the journey of wild turkey from the hunt to the table, offering readers a guide that includes butchery and over 100 recipes.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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While the Pahalgam massacre triggered Jews with flashbacks to October 7, October 7, in turn, triggered Hindus with flashbacks to the sadistic butchery in Kashmir over three decades ago.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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Israel and its rivals have not resolved their political disputes, which in some cases have been further inflamed by the bloodshed.—
Greg Myre,
NPR,
28 June 2025
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Federal prosecutors said Monday that the man charged with shooting two Minnesota state lawmakers and their spouses, killing one couple, went to two other legislators’ homes that night, bent on more bloodshed.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
16 June 2025
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“Genocide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genocide. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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