as in genocide
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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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
And the settlers take advantage of the war; there are now daily, perhaps hourly, pogroms, including killing Palestinians in cold blood and with total impunity.
—Dahlia Krutkovich, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2026
Though the mass of Jewish migration, escaping Russian pogroms and Nazi Germany in succeeding waves, occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some arrived before the revolution; but the Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom, granted them legal rights.
—Robert Lloyd, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
Though the mass of Jewish migration, escaping Russian pogroms and Nazi Germany in succeeding waves, occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some arrived before the revolution; but the Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom, granted them legal rights.
—Robert Lloyd, Houston Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2026
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Brooke Migdon, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026
And the settlers take advantage of the war; there are now daily, perhaps hourly, pogroms, including killing Palestinians in cold blood and with total impunity.
—Dahlia Krutkovich, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2026
Though the mass of Jewish migration, escaping Russian pogroms and Nazi Germany in succeeding waves, occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some arrived before the revolution; but the Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom, granted them legal rights.
—Robert Lloyd, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2026
Though the mass of Jewish migration, escaping Russian pogroms and Nazi Germany in succeeding waves, occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some arrived before the revolution; but the Constitution, which enshrined religious freedom, granted them legal rights.
—Robert Lloyd, Houston Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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Smiley Martin died in 2024 in Sacramento County Main Jail awaiting trial in the massacre.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
19 June 2026
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Six years later, 49 people were killed and and more than 50 were injured on June 12, 2016, in the Orlando, Florida, massacre at Pulse, a nightclub popular with LGBTQ+ men of color.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
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Fulda all but ditches his ambitious partner Chaton (Vincent Dedienne), in order to team up with Stéphane to get to the bottom of the endless pig-slaughter, and to put paid to the local superstition that Brun’s ghost may be the culprit.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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The coup ended with the slaughter or imprisonment of most of its participants.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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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.—
Scott Huver,
Variety,
20 May 2026
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As holocaust survivors get older and die, educators around the world are concerned about younger generations having little access to survivor testimonies.—
Lauren Costantino
March 27,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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But the biggest beef to be had is in Sarnoski’s insistence to bludgeon us with pulverizing violence, which grows tiresome and repetitive in the carnage-spewing initial 30 minutes.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
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To preserve democracy, Palestinian Americans were being asked to support a member of the administration that repeatedly armed the agents of this carnage.—
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
15 June 2026
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