genocide

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Noun
  • Jacobo Timerman, its founding editor, was a committed advocate for human rights and democratic institutions whose family had come to Argentina fleeing pogroms in Ukraine in the late 1920s.
    Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
  • Conquest, war, famine and death, disease and pogroms had been the driving forces behind the great migrations in Europe, Asia and Africa.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Raphael is a survivor of the Oct. 7, 2023 Nova Festival massacre in Israel, which was part of a surprise attack in which Hamas raiders murdered more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 250 men, women and children.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 May 2025
  • India accused Pakistan of backing the militants who carried out the massacre, an allegation Islamabad denied.
    Rajesh Roy, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Because the world keeps beginning and ending the same way, with the slaughter of the innocent, with the massacre of the blameless, and there’s not a thing anyone can do.
    Li-Young Lee, The Atlantic, 11 May 2025
  • Even after the slaughter of the animal, there’s no restitution for its owner or the audience.
    Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • Paul Hill, who was executed for gunning down a Florida clinic doctor and a volunteer in 1994, cited Bonhoeffer in viewing the attacks against clinics as a way of preventing a holocaust.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
  • What may do us in isn’t a meteor, a nuclear holocaust or a superpandemic.
    Steve Forbes, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As Williams clung to him the way a remora fish clings to the belly of a shark, the refs looked at the carnage — and immediately whistled Joker for a ticky-tack offensive foul.
    Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 13 May 2025
  • Why would Tesla's stock still be valued so highly in the midst of declining sales and reputational carnage?
    Aron Solomon, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The 18-year-old, who was released from custody last month after posting a $250,000 bond, is charged with murder in connection with the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf, 17, on April 2 at a track meet in the Dallas suburb of Frisco.
    Jonathan Limehouse, USA Today, 15 May 2025
  • Ultimately, they were convicted of first-degree murder in 1996 and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Researchers also uncovered hippo bones with butchery marks, indicating early humans at the site used the large mammals for food.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2025
  • This site, containing hominin remains and butchery marks on animal remains, is dated to around 1.85 million years ago.
    Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • New Delhi has pinned the bloodshed on Islamabad, which denies complicity and called for an independent investigation.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 May 2025
  • But as the bloodshed mounted this week, local Druse leaders in Ashrafieh Sahnaya went the other way.
    Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 3 May 2025
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“Genocide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genocide. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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