as in pogrom
the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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This was a natural home base for immigrant Jews fleeing the ghettos and pogroms of Europe.—
Nathan Diament,
New York Daily News,
7 Aug. 2025 -
Concord led to our own brand of movies, forged not by old American wealth but by entrepreneurial immigrants from Eastern Europe, many of them Jews escaping pogroms throughout that part of the world: Louis B. Meyer (MGM), Adolph Zukor (Paramount), The Warner Brothers and more.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 July 2025
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His original response to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre of Israelis and others certainly was expected — a death penalty for the Palestinian terrorists who make even their own people suffer.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Aug. 2025
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These same groups later carried out many of the grisly sectarian massacres of Alawite civilians along Syria’s coastal Latakia province in March, which killed at least 1,479, mostly civilians, following attacks by remnants of the former Assad regime.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Some 4% of the cattle the U.S. feeds to slaughter for beef comes from Mexico.—
Josh Funk,
Chicago Tribune,
18 July 2025
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The goal of preserving and strengthening the bear population is fundamentally at odds with a pre-holiday slaughter.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
18 July 2025
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Our science worship has usurped the God worship of previous centuries, but ultimately points to Old Testament outcomes: Apocalypse, holocaust, and the fascistic desire to dominate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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Those souls who, through miracles, unlikely coincidences, or pure dumb luck somehow survived the nuclear holocaust and lived to tell their tales.—
Sean Woods,
Rolling Stone,
5 Aug. 2025
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Whether the Ferriers are on foot or in a car, the director choreographs spectacular carnage around them, a visceral cocktail of alien death rays turning their victims to dust, or city infrastructure being demolished with extreme prejudice.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
29 June 2025
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Championship Sunday at Oakmont Country Club was pure carnage but ended with a magical putt from J.J. Spaun.—
Savannah Leigh Richardson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 June 2025
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The Vice Lords is a gang whose members have been involved in murder, drug trafficking and other violent crime, according to the US Justice Department.—
Emma Tucker,
CNN Money,
6 Aug. 2025
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At the time, law enforcement believed the murders and fire to be the result of a robbery gone bad.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Of the remains, 222 had color changes that are associated with cremation, while 69 of those bones had signs of butchery likely performed after death.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
7 Aug. 2025
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The skulls bore butchery marks, hinting at a feast; however, the real mystery was their origin.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
29 July 2025
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The rabbinic sages counseled patience, seeking a diplomatic accommodation that would avert mass bloodshed.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
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While there's no bloodshed, some of the monsters in the film look pretty intense and clearly intend to harm the kids.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Genocide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genocide. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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