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
During the Crusades, the Inquisition, and countless pogroms, Jews were demonized as infidels who refused to abandon their faith, even under threat of death.
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Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
And sure enough, Trump’s pogrom against pets has now spread beyond the People’s Republic of Cambridge.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 2025
Concord led to our own brand of movies, forged not by old American wealth but by entrepreneurial immigrants from Eastern Europe, many of them Jews escaping pogroms throughout that part of the world: Louis B. Meyer (MGM), Adolph Zukor (Paramount), The Warner Brothers and more.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Thousands were killed during two years of unrest following the first Russian Revolution in 1905, while over 100,000 Jews were killed in Ukrainian pogroms from 1918 to 1921.
—Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
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Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
And sure enough, Trump’s pogrom against pets has now spread beyond the People’s Republic of Cambridge.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 2025
Concord led to our own brand of movies, forged not by old American wealth but by entrepreneurial immigrants from Eastern Europe, many of them Jews escaping pogroms throughout that part of the world: Louis B. Meyer (MGM), Adolph Zukor (Paramount), The Warner Brothers and more.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Thousands were killed during two years of unrest following the first Russian Revolution in 1905, while over 100,000 Jews were killed in Ukrainian pogroms from 1918 to 1921.
—Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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The university also produced John Morse, a former Colorado senate president who earned national attention for his leadership in passing gun control legislation following the Aurora theater shooting and Sandy Hook massacre.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
3 Oct. 2025
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On the day of the massacre, the shooter opened and walked through the west door with no hindrance, though it had been pulled shut by a teacher.—
Matthew J. Friedman,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
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Matt Jones and Christina Long discuss whats next for Arkansas football after the Notre Dame slaughter on Saturday.—
Christina Long,
Arkansas Online,
29 Sep. 2025
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The 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda became the paradigmatic example, prosecuted at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and recognized by the UN Security Council.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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In his director’s statement, the filmmaker reveals that the historical drama mines from his own family’s trauma, linking the effects that both the holocaust and the rise in communism in Hungary had on him and his loved ones.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
25 Aug. 2025
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In the holocaust of the South Bronx, lighting a match could seem like just hastening the inevitable.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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Erika Kirk, like most of us, is tired of the carnage.—
Boston Herald editorial staff,
Boston Herald,
23 Sep. 2025
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Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit.—
Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Sep. 2025
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