as in pogrom
the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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Gluckowsky likened the Bondi Beach attack to the pogroms that European Jews endured for centuries.—
Matt Bradley,
NBC news,
16 Dec. 2025 -
There was no forgetting the notorious Confederate prison camps like Andersonville and Salisbury, the Confederate pogrom at Fort Pillow, and the fact that the South had seceded in the first place to perpetuate and expand an elite-serving economy based on human chattel.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Oct. 2025
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The Uvalde massacre remains one of the deadliest US school shootings, a continuing scourge that has spurred security measures in classrooms across America.—
Matthew J. Friedman,
CNN Money,
14 Jan. 2026
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They are used as a pretext to justify the siege, shelling and massacres committed against civilians.—
Benjamin Weinthal,
FOXNews.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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Raw and vulnerable, Coon reveals that Agnes has been starving for penance, ready to offer herself up for slaughter.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
9 Jan. 2026
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The Kohbergers’ pride in Bryan was shattered by the revelation that he was suspected of and later admitted to the slaughter.—
Theresa Braine,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Zbur said this while in the presence of a descendant of a holocaust survivor, who had to excuse herself from the chamber, according to GOP Assembly member Kate Sanchez.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
26 Dec. 2025
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The film is cosmic Rocky, a thriller-comedy-blockbuster whose scope reaches all the way from the atom bomb to the holocaust and back to the pyramids, locating that beautiful and terrible human need to strive for the impossible, no matter the toll.—
Sam Goldner,
Pitchfork,
23 Dec. 2025
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Prescient words, especially coming amid the carnage of a 23-point loss.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Jan. 2026
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Despite its unevenness, The Bone Temple delivers enough carnage and ritual sacrifice to satiate the horror flock.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Jan. 2026
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The number of killings investigated last year fell to 67, with 57 of those categorized as murders — excluding cases such as justifiable homicides — a total not seen since 1967, according to data compiled by this news organization.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Jackson, who famously won an acquittal in the murder trial of Karen Read and represented disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, did not explain his decision to withdraw from the case.—
Matt Gutman,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Rewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America’s interests.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Dec. 2025
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Ho is the owner of the Royce, a downtown Detroit wine bar; Marrow, the award-winning restaurant and neighborhood butchery shop in Detroit’s West Village, and Marrow Birmingham on Hamilton Row in Birmingham.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
14 Nov. 2025
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But two years of military activity have failed to stem the bloodshed.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Jan. 2026
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And there's been a lot of bloodshed.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Genocide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genocide. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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