as in pogrom
the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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The movie tells the story of four tech billionaires gathering together in a mountain retreat while much of the world descends into rioting, populist pogroms, and potential civil war because of a new content-creation tool just released by one of the ...—
Michael Brendan Dougherty,
National Review,
27 June 2025 -
Glass is a human invention, and its breakage is inevitably associated with human violence or a human accident: a burglar’s incursion, a child’s wayward baseball, a pogrom.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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The massacre of the people of Gaza continues unabated.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 June 2025
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As early as the 1970s, Jordan’s crushing of Palestinian guerrillas prompted the emergence of the Black September organization and the Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.—
HUSSEIN AGHA,
Foreign Affairs,
23 June 2025
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They were all robbed, of very little money, and in three instances, their homes were set ablaze to hide evidence of the slaughter that had taken place inside, authorities said.—
KC Baker,
People.com,
20 June 2025
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Sequences of compliant sheep, moving to their mechanized slaughter, sometimes cut to scenes of streetwise children, repurposing rubble for games.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 June 2025
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During the holocaust [sic] our grandparents would have been delighted if people in the free world had stood up for them.—
Ben Sales,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2025
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The national security team's meeting today was ongoing at 9 p.m. 5h ago / 6:41 PM PDT Share 'Israel refuses to be the victim of a nuclear holocaust,' Netanyahu says Phil Helsel Netanyahu said Iran and its nuclear program are threats to Israel's very existence.—
Marin Scott,
NBC news,
13 June 2025
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Yet for those that survived the carnage, this created opportunities.—
Tim Vernimmen,
JSTOR Daily,
19 June 2025
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But the main disagreement with them is not in their correct dismissal of deregulation as the cause of the carnage, but in their ongoing support of government intervention, including bailouts.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Francisco Javier Sanchez-Juarez, 28, and Jeffrey Josue Diaz, 24, are charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder in connection to the incident.—
Racquel Bazos,
Baltimore Sun,
1 July 2025
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Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office homicide detectives, who took over the case from Florida City police, booked Fisher into Metro West Detention Center on a second-degree murder charge.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2025
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With rare and heritage breed livestock born, raised, finished, and butchered on the estate, the butchery gives The Newt even greater control over the quality, provenance, and traceability of its meat.—
Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
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That’s what cooks do at Jeju, a Portland, Oregon, restaurant that specializes in whole-animal butchery.—
Emily Saladino,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 May 2025
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The flag is split horizontally with the red arched into the blue, signifying the bloodshed of the enslaved and depicting a new horizon.—
Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
18 June 2025
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In a joint statement, Iran’s Nobel laureates Narges Mohammadi and Shirin Ebadi, filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, and civil society voices urged world leaders to halt uranium enrichment and end the bloodshed of innocents in Iran and Israel.—
Nazanin Boniadi,
Time,
17 June 2025
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“Genocide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genocide. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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