genocides

noun

plural of genocide
as in massacres
the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group

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Recent Examples of genocides Solve world hunger and starvation and famines and genocides. — Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025 Thus could Samantha Power berate American governments for their failure to intervene in genocides everywhere. — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025 Yet, genocides and atrocities have continued in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Sudan, and Ukraine. — Irwin Cotler, TIME, 26 Jan. 2025 Most genocides begin with extraordinarily compelling stories—ones that transform neighbors and friends into interlopers, invaders, infections, and infestations. — Sayantani Dasgupta february 24, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026 Holocaust Memorial Day honors the six million Jewish people who were murdered during the Holocaust, as well as the millions killed under Nazi persecution and later genocides around the world. — Janine Henni, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025 One of the best films of the 2010s, Joshua Oppenheimer’s film unpacks the Indonesian genocides of the 1960s and how the men who perpetrated them have never faced consequences. — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025 In what would become one of the largest genocides in Europe since World War II, Bosnian Serb forces began an attack on the Bosniak ethnic group in the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina. — USA Today, 24 June 2026 Holocaust survivors and local Palm Beach County students joined together for the Legacy of Impact event hosted by inSIGHT Through Education, a program that encourages kindness by using lessons learned from the Holocaust and genocides worldwide. — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for genocides
  1. massacres
  2. pogroms
  3. bloodbaths
  4. slaughters
Noun
  • Based on thousands of testimonies and years of research conducted by Gerardi and the Archbishop’s Office of Human Rights, the report documented more than 400 massacres.
    — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 July 2026
  • Anyone who thinks that the differences between these sects are minor is invited to read about the wars, massacres and persecutions that erupted between them in the 16th and 17th centuries.
    — Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Definition of massacres
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  • Later in the 19th century, pogroms across Eastern Europe and the aftermath of Italian reunification drove a surge of migration to the United States.
    — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Other ancestors had fled aboard the Mayflower from the persecution of Puritans in England, aboard a steamship from pogroms in Ukraine, aboard a schooner from Spanish repression in Cuba.
    — Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
Definition of pogroms
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  • Your Night Manager and Something Very Bad characters both made big decisions that led to bloodbaths.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
  • Naturally, the theft of the ghost shirt by the stooges in the employ of Roy Lee is accompanied by many deceased bodies — the first of the many bloodbaths in Americana, which has a distressingly expedient approach to on-screen carnage.
    — Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
Definition of bloodbaths
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  • Hands-down one of the most disgusting movies ever made (a compliment), the film finds the indefatigable slasher, who was decapitated at the end of Terrifier 2, reattaching his head and commencing his ritual slaughters.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Oct. 2025
Definition of slaughters

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