genocide

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Noun
  • The Arab revolt was eventually put down, and Husseini fled to Nazi Germany — but not before inciting another pogrom in Baghdad, Iraq.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • But if sectarian pogroms continue on his watch, those assurances will start to look hollow.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Orlov also pointed her to Voit's location, leading to the hospital massacre and her abduction of Voit and Dr. Ochoa.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 10 July 2025
  • The season traces the brutal machinery of empire: propaganda, collaborators, betrayal and the looming massacre of civilians on Ghorman, a peaceful planet crushed for daring to protest.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • The first half begins in Poland, where seven-year-old Jakob Beer is the sole member of his Jewish family to survive the Nazis’ brutal slaughter.
    Mia Barzilay Freund, Vogue, 7 July 2025
  • Jess remembers her first on-farm slaughter years ago when a female spooked and tore through the woods.
    Bennet Goldstein, jsonline.com, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • Art lovers flock to the world-renowned Van Gogh Museum, while the Anne Frank House offers a deeply poignant window into the harrowing trauma of the holocaust.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • The mostly impressionistic plot centers a French woman visiting Hiroshima to film an anti-nuclear war film—a postmortem attempt at documenting Japan’s holocaust.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Gregory, a horrified business owner who was arriving at work in Sunset Park when the battered BMW sped past him, said he was stunned by the carnage the BMW left behind.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 12 July 2025
  • Voicework: Doogie Is Deadpool Deadpool VR nails the carnage, but the cherry on top is Deadpool himself.
    Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 15 June 2025
Noun
  • Michael Proctor, a former homicide detective with the Massachusetts State Police, lost his job but may still resurface in the upcoming murder trial of Brian Walshe – who is accused of killing his wife Ana outside Boston.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2025
  • With visions of wealth and success, the young men are lured into what becomes a web of fraud — and a cautionary tale that devolves into murder.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Prior to Vida, the Fort Wayne native studied culinary disciplines including butchery at Ivy Tech's Fort Wayne and Indianapolis campuses.
    Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 4 July 2025
  • Griffiths brings the journey of wild turkey from the hunt to the table, offering readers a guide that includes butchery and over 100 recipes.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • His striking work, Protest, depicts the bloodshed of Sri Lanka’s long civil war, using books that are charred or rendered illegible, often decorated with symbolic or figurative objects, like toy-soldier figurines marching across a soiled page.
    Thessaly La Force, Travel + Leisure, 4 July 2025
  • So far, few other details have been provided regarding the boardwalk bloodshed.
    Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 1 July 2025
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“Genocide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genocide. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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