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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Nearly 600 days after he was abducted by Hamas during the October 7 massacre, Edan Alexander returned home to New Jersey on Thursday to a deeply emotional homecoming.—
Efrat Lachter , Nate Foy , Julia Johnson,
FOXNews.com,
19 June 2025
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The church's pastor, Clementa Pinckney, was one of the people killed in the massacre.—
Mark Strassmann,
CBS News,
17 June 2025
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Third, in the face of such facts, a deportation of Afghans back to Afghanistan would be nothing short of a slaughter.—
David Peduto,
Baltimore Sun,
11 June 2025
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His cases there included the successful prosecution — in a 25-month trial — of a Croatian general who ordered the slaughter of Muslim noncombatants.—
Dan Sullivan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 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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The national security team's meeting today was ongoing at 9 p.m. 5h ago / 6:41 PM PDT Share 'Israel refuses to be the victim of a nuclear holocaust,' Netanyahu says Phil Helsel Netanyahu said Iran and its nuclear program are threats to Israel's very existence.—
Marin Scott,
NBC news,
13 June 2025
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Yet for those that survived the carnage, this created opportunities.—
Tim Vernimmen,
JSTOR Daily,
19 June 2025
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But the main disagreement with them is not in their correct dismissal of deregulation as the cause of the carnage, but in their ongoing support of government intervention, including bailouts.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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First-degree murder in Arkansas can be punished by 10 to 40 years or life.—
Ron Wood,
Arkansas Online,
19 June 2025
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Court officials reviewed YouTube footage and charged Troconis with criminal contempt of court, a misdemeanor, on the same day she was convicted of helping her boyfriend execute and cover up his wife’s murder.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
19 June 2025
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With rare and heritage breed livestock born, raised, finished, and butchered on the estate, the butchery gives The Newt even greater control over the quality, provenance, and traceability of its meat.—
Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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That’s what cooks do at Jeju, a Portland, Oregon, restaurant that specializes in whole-animal butchery.—
Emily Saladino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 May 2025
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The flag is split horizontally with the red arched into the blue, signifying the bloodshed of the enslaved and depicting a new horizon.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2025
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In a joint statement, Iran’s Nobel laureates Narges Mohammadi and Shirin Ebadi, filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, and civil society voices urged world leaders to halt uranium enrichment and end the bloodshed of innocents in Iran and Israel.—
Nazanin Boniadi,
Time,
17 June 2025
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“Genocide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genocide. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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