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Recent Examples of ethnic cleansing
When the murder of 100,000 people, many of them women and children, is mentioned or denounced, or when someone dares to use terms such as genocide, ethnocide, ethnic cleansing or similar, most people choose to take issue with the characterization, quibbling over semantics.
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Uriel Kon
september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Rights groups have accused Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, charges that the Israeli government forcefully denies.
—Natasha Turak, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Freedom House, the European Parliament, and many other institutions have called it ethnic cleansing.
—Artak Beglaryan, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Critics warn the scheme could amount to ethnic cleansing.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Aug. 2025
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Uriel Kon
september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Rights groups have accused Israel of carrying out ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, charges that the Israeli government forcefully denies.
—Natasha Turak, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Freedom House, the European Parliament, and many other institutions have called it ethnic cleansing.
—Artak Beglaryan, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
Critics warn the scheme could amount to ethnic cleansing.
—Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ethnic cleansing
Noun
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Make sure everyone in your family or household knows the escape plans and understands the need to comply with evacuation orders.—
Andrea Riquier,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Follow evacuation instructions without delay.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
2 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Still, Molina’s tenure overlaps with the council’s deadline to make transportation board appointments.—
Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Oct. 2025
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Combs was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday after being found guilty of two felony counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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However, kinetic resources alone cannot mitigate migration, curb extremism, or stabilize deadly conflicts.—
Patrick Quirk,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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Predictably, the great migration has left its greasy fingerprints all over Versant’s balance sheet.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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After her ejection last week, Reeve refused to leave the court in a reasonable timeframe.—
Chantz Martin,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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The game was punctuated by Kotsay’s late ejection, with the manager making the long walk to the clubhouse in the top of the ninth inning after protesting an umpire call.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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This led to a significant wave of emigration, with many Cubans heading to the United States.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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Tilbury Docks is a post-industrial wasteland of car parks, motorways and an old brick terminal whose walls are coated thick with the memory of emigration.—
David Greig
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Ethnic cleansing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ethnic%20cleansing. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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