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
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.
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Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
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
Thus could Samantha Power berate American governments for their failure to intervene in genocides everywhere.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Solve world hunger and starvation and famines and genocides.
—Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
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
Yet, genocides and atrocities have continued in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Sudan, and Ukraine.
—Irwin Cotler, TIME, 26 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
Staged in the aftermath of genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the summit saw 170 governments adopt the Responsibility to Protect, or R2P, pledging to take on individual responsibility to protect their own populations from mass atrocities.
—Mike Brand, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024
Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
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
Thus could Samantha Power berate American governments for their failure to intervene in genocides everywhere.
—Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Solve world hunger and starvation and famines and genocides.
—Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
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
Yet, genocides and atrocities have continued in Cambodia, Rwanda, Darfur, Sudan, and Ukraine.
—Irwin Cotler, TIME, 26 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
Staged in the aftermath of genocides in Rwanda and Srebrenica, the summit saw 170 governments adopt the Responsibility to Protect, or R2P, pledging to take on individual responsibility to protect their own populations from mass atrocities.
—Mike Brand, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for genocides
Noun
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Tens of thousands of Sudanese civilians were killed by the RSF in massacres after the capture of the Sudanese city of El Fasher alone last year.—
Kate Bartlett,
NPR,
9 June 2026
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Most significantly, Lepore found that readers wanted to know the full story of their country—the progress and the revanchism, the beauty and the ugliness, the racial massacres and the Indian New Deal.—
Yoni Appelbaum,
The Atlantic,
8 June 2026
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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
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My parents escaped the pogroms of eastern Europe, came here and faced hardships.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
29 May 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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