as in genocide
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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Recent Examples of pogrom
Blacks endured slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation; Jews carried centuries of antisemitism, pogroms, and exclusion.
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Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
24 May 2026
Most Jews in South Africa came from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia—escaping pogroms and the restrictions on their lives imposed by Czarist Russia, and attracted to South Africa by reports of newfound wealth.
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Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
While the Chinese pavilion charmed visitors to the Centennial, Chinese immigrants in California were enduring racist pogroms.
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Fergus M. Bordewich,
Time,
30 Apr. 2026
Batra left India in the 1980s, after her parents were murdered during a state pogrom against Sikhs, according to the Texas Observer.
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Brooke Migdon,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
24 May 2026
Most Jews in South Africa came from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia—escaping pogroms and the restrictions on their lives imposed by Czarist Russia, and attracted to South Africa by reports of newfound wealth.
—
Literary Hub,
12 May 2026
While the Chinese pavilion charmed visitors to the Centennial, Chinese immigrants in California were enduring racist pogroms.
—
Fergus M. Bordewich,
Time,
30 Apr. 2026
Batra left India in the 1980s, after her parents were murdered during a state pogrom against Sikhs, according to the Texas Observer.
—
Brooke Migdon,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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Athalia’s family returned home a few days after the massacre.
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The issue has been particularly salient for low-income families living near fields of coca, the shrub used to make cocaine, as human rights organizations documented more than 50 massacres in Colombia just this year.
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The rigidity and delusions of tyrannies are incorrigible; their purity spirals end in executions, not just cancellations; their adventures end in devastation and slaughter.
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Ruthye needs someone to avenge the slaughter of her family at the hands of Krem of the Yellow Hills.
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There is no other way to describe the catastrophe in Gaza than as a holocaust!
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In Season 1, audiences saw Lucy (Ella Purnell) learning the truth about her dad (Kyle MacLachlan)’s involvement in the nuclear holocaust.
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These weapons of war are designed to inflict the maximum amount of carnage and destruction and have no place in our communities.
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Those rivalries, bravado and score-settling led to the carnage, Ng argued Monday.
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pogrom. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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