as in genocide
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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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.
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Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
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 ...
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 June 2025
The Arab revolt was eventually put down, and Husseini fled to Nazi Germany — but not before inciting another pogrom in Baghdad, Iraq.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 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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Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
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 ...
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 27 June 2025
The Arab revolt was eventually put down, and Husseini fled to Nazi Germany — but not before inciting another pogrom in Baghdad, Iraq.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 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 shooting at Evergreen High is at least the seventh school shooting in Colorado since the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School that killed 13 students and one teacher.—
Katie Langford,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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Sheriff Tony later condemned his deputies’ failures, including their inaction on removing Nathan’s firearms or seeking a court order under Florida’s red flag law, passed after the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre.—
Milena Malaver,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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Most effective however is Vanderbilt’s decision to stop the action and simply run the devastating real black-and-white film footage of the slaughter of Jews in the concentration camps.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
7 Sep. 2025
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Hamas had brutally penetrated our southern border, embarking on the slaughter of civilians.—
Ron Scherf,
Time,
5 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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Basically the carnage is all nonstop from this point on, a festival of killing in all kinds of nifty ways.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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Johnson’s dishonesty doesn’t even take into consideration the carnage from the homicides of yesteryear in the Windy City.—
Christopher Tremoglie,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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