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
Gluckowsky likened the Bondi Beach attack to the pogroms that European Jews endured for centuries.
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Matt Bradley, NBC news, 16 Dec. 2025
There was no forgetting the notorious Confederate prison camps like Andersonville and Salisbury, the Confederate pogrom at Fort Pillow, and the fact that the South had seceded in the first place to perpetuate and expand an elite-serving economy based on human chattel.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2025
In spite of Husseini’s role in leading a pogrom in Jerusalem in 1920, British authorities made Husseini the grand mufti of Jerusalem, the leading Muslim cleric in the land.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
In Iași alone over a three-day period in June 1941, more than 13,000 Jews — more than a third of the city’s Jewish population — were massacred, marking one of the worst pogroms of World War II.
—Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
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Matt Bradley, NBC news, 16 Dec. 2025
There was no forgetting the notorious Confederate prison camps like Andersonville and Salisbury, the Confederate pogrom at Fort Pillow, and the fact that the South had seceded in the first place to perpetuate and expand an elite-serving economy based on human chattel.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Oct. 2025
In spite of Husseini’s role in leading a pogrom in Jerusalem in 1920, British authorities made Husseini the grand mufti of Jerusalem, the leading Muslim cleric in the land.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
In Iași alone over a three-day period in June 1941, more than 13,000 Jews — more than a third of the city’s Jewish population — were massacred, marking one of the worst pogroms of World War II.
—Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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Colin Gray knew his son was obsessed with school shooters, even having a shrine in his bedroom to Nikolas Cruz, the shooter in the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, prosecutors said.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Colin Gray knew his son was obsessed with school shooters, even having a shrine in his bedroom to the shooter in the 2018 massacre at Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, prosecutors said.—
Jeff Martin,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Mar. 2026
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His parents wanted to make sure that he and his older brother would never get sucked into such slaughter.—
Jack Dolan,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Colt Gray is accused of using the firearm his father should have secured to carry out the slaughter about 45 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta.—
Dan Gallo,
NBC news,
3 Mar. 2026
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In Silo, references to a toxic world imply that half a million people were sent underground to protect them from the horrors of a nuclear holocaust.—
Richard Edwards,
Space.com,
7 Feb. 2026
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According to a social media post made by Senior Rabbi Evan Schultz, the menorah had been built by a holocaust survivor.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
15 Jan. 2026
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Playoff carnage San Diego Section teams did not fare well in Tuesday’s opening round of the Southern California playoffs.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
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Authorities said Ndiaga Diagne, 53, was killed in a shootout with members of the Austin Police Department following the carnage in the heart of the city’s entertainment district.—
Leonard Greene,
New York Daily News,
3 Mar. 2026
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