as in pogrom
the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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Noun
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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 -
And the settlers take advantage of the war; there are now daily, perhaps hourly, pogroms, including killing Palestinians in cold blood and with total impunity.—
Dahlia Krutkovich,
The New York Review of Books,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The world sees the massacres in Lebanon.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
8 Apr. 2026
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However, that night’s 19-3 massacre against visiting Worchester was a harbinger of things to come.—
Staff Report,
Twin Cities,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The slaughter of hundreds of our service members with roadside bombs.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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Now amid the Greeley strike and other slaughter plant capacity reductions — including the closure of a major Tyson Foods’ plant in Nebraska — JBS and other companies are seeing profits increase, Martin said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
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As holocaust survivors get older and die, educators around the world are concerned about younger generations having little access to survivor testimonies.—
Lauren Costantino
March 27,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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In Silo, references to a toxic world imply that half a million people were sent underground to protect them from the horrors of a nuclear holocaust.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Their annual festive holiday gift exchange spirals into a cutthroat game of Christmas carnage.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
6 Apr. 2026
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Even under the most hysterical scenarios, the internet provides nowhere near those levels of carnage.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
3 Apr. 2026
Noun
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OpenAI is now facing seven wrongful-death lawsuits, which allege that ChatGPT prompted several suicides and a murder.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Using the text as a base, this piece tells the story of an unlikely bond — a ship’s Captain harboring a stowaway accused of murder —through a mix of words, dance, music, sound, and art installation.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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Amid rising grocery costs, American shoppers are searching for inventive ways to save, like buying meat in bulk and taking on the butchery at home.—
Kelly McCarthy,
ABC News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Vespaio was one of the first restaurants in the region to engage in whole animal butchery and even kept its own herb garden on the property.—
Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
27 Feb. 2026
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Authoritarianism, rule by force and revolutions with bloodshed are the norms.—
Stephen Mitchell,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Apr. 2026
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The massacre is just the latest bloodshed in a nation that has been left reeling by spiraling gang warfare for five years following the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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“Genocide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genocide. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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