as in pogrom
the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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Irish farmers running from famine, Germans displaced by war, and Russian and Ukrainian Jews escaping pogroms.—
Caitlin Dickerson,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2026 -
Though the mass of Jewish migration, escaping Russian pogroms and Nazi Germany in succeeding waves, occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some arrived before the revolution; but the Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom, granted them legal rights.—
Robert Lloyd,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2026
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Next door in Syria, massacres of Alawite minorities took place last year in the wake of the Bashar al-Assad’s ouster — killings allegedly committed by forces aligned with the new government.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2026
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The images taken from space have provided evidence for investigations into widespread destruction, population movements, and even massacres, especially in places that are remote or inaccessible due to fighting on the ground.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Now after four years of ongoing horrors in Ukraine, and more than two years of watching slaughter and suffering in Gaza, the latest war filling our feeds is just another numbing form of content, a digital arena in which competing forces try to assert conflicting viewpoints.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2026
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There’s enough poetic irony there to land the billionaire slaughter in the middle of the list.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
10 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
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According to a social media post made by Senior Rabbi Evan Schultz, the menorah had been built by a holocaust survivor.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
15 Jan. 2026
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Howe’s first excursion into the Champions League stretched the squad to translucency, while executive churn, financial restrictions and then a summer of carnage in the transfer market have been challenges to overcome.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2026
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Those are good questions, but the hotel’s larger geography is never really laid out, and the action scenes — although filled with cartoonish violence — never seem to have any objective beyond the carnage itself.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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Their 32-year-old son, Nick Reiner, has been charged with their murder, accused of fatally stabbing them.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
16 Mar. 2026
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Officials identified the man as Grant Parker, who had been arrested last month on suspicion of murder.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 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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The bloodshed marks the shooting with the most casualties in Travis County in at least 12 years and among the highest victim counts of shootings in Texas during that period, according to an American-Statesman analysis of Gun Violence Archive data.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
6 Mar. 2026
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Today, while Kurdish areas have witnessed bravery and bloodshed, participation in the nationwide uprising has been uneven.—
Jalil Pakray,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2026
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