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pogrom

noun

Definition of pogrom

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 Anti-Jewish riots, or pogroms, swept Russia in the late 19th century. — John Blake, CNN Money, 5 July 2026 Later in the 19th century, pogroms across Eastern Europe and the aftermath of Italian reunification drove a surge of migration to the United States. — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026 Felix Kallmann, who, in addition to collecting art, ran a lightbulb-making company called Deutsche Gasglühlicht and the film production company Universum Film AG de Babelsberg, died of a heart attack a few days after the Kristallnacht pogrom. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026 Other ancestors had fled aboard the Mayflower from the persecution of Puritans in England, aboard a steamship from pogroms in Ukraine, aboard a schooner from Spanish repression in Cuba. — Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for pogrom

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Eric Bana plays Avner, a Mossad operative sent to hunt down the Palestinians whom Israel holds responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

— Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2026
So please do not celebrate Palestinian steadfastness as though we were placed on this earth to provide inspiring images of survival between massacres.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

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This is because the costs of maintaining a herd—feed, fertilizer and equipment—have gone up as a result of tariffs and drought, so fewer farmers breed cows for slaughter, which restricts beef supply.

— Mia Osmonbekov, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
Massie is urging Congress to pass the Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption Act, which would expand federal meat inspection exemptions to include products prepared at local slaughter facilities that are to be sold in the same state.

— Caroline Neal, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Sep. 2026

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August 29, the fictional date (in 1997) of the franchise’s original nuclear holocaust, is fast approaching, and Judgment Day is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026
Fears about environmental devastation, overpopulation, energy depletion, and a nuclear holocaust were omnipresent, manifested in books such as The Population Bomb, the back-to-the-land movement, and the entire Hollywood disaster-movie genre.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026

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