as in genocide
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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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 ...
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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
His ancestors fled pogroms in Ukraine to make their fortune in the United States.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Jacobo Timerman, its founding editor, was a committed advocate for human rights and democratic institutions whose family had come to Argentina fleeing pogroms in Ukraine in the late 1920s.
—Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
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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
His ancestors fled pogroms in Ukraine to make their fortune in the United States.
—Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025
Jacobo Timerman, its founding editor, was a committed advocate for human rights and democratic institutions whose family had come to Argentina fleeing pogroms in Ukraine in the late 1920s.
—Lily Meyer, The Dial, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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Australia has designated Hamas a terrorist entity and Albanese repeated Monday his government's calls for the group to return Israeli hostages held since the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre.—
Bradford Betz,
FOXNews.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Some Israelis on the left are more aware of this now, but the open wound of both the massacre itself and those twenty live hostages and thirty bodies kept remain obsessions.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
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All Robert has to do is slaughter a few dozen members of the Camorra who are terrorizing the place.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
15 Aug. 2025
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Whether farmers use the high prices as an opportunity to expand their herds or instead seek to profit from selling off cows for slaughter will determine whether the U.S. cattle herd continues to shrink, Nelson wrote.—
Reia Li,
AZCentral.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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Those souls who, through miracles, unlikely coincidences, or pure dumb luck somehow survived the nuclear holocaust and lived to tell their tales.—
Sean Woods,
Rolling Stone,
5 Aug. 2025
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Our science worship has usurped the God worship of previous centuries, but ultimately points to Old Testament outcomes: Apocalypse, holocaust, and the fascistic desire to dominate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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Whether the Ferriers are on foot or in a car, the director choreographs spectacular carnage around them, a visceral cocktail of alien death rays turning their victims to dust, or city infrastructure being demolished with extreme prejudice.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
29 June 2025
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Championship Sunday at Oakmont Country Club was pure carnage but ended with a magical putt from J.J. Spaun.—
Savannah Leigh Richardson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 June 2025
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