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
In the pogroms that followed, more than 1,000 people were butchered, most of them Muslim.
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Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
The empire’s third century ruling class felt otherwise, and thrice authorized pogroms of the empire’s largest religious minority.
—Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
The resonant analogue was the pogrom.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
And not all pogroms have fatalities.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2025
The empire’s third century ruling class felt otherwise, and thrice authorized pogroms of the empire’s largest religious minority.
—Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
The resonant analogue was the pogrom.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
And not all pogroms have fatalities.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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In the Dark: The Killings in Haditha In the Dark: The Killings in Haditha delves into the tragic 2005 massacre in which U.S. marines killed numerous Iraqi civilians in Haditha, revealing the profound anguish of the victims’ families and the lack of accountability from the American government.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
1 May 2025
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India has blamed Pakistan for the massacre, a charge Islamabad denies.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 May 2025
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Before that, mass demon slaughter in Path of Exile 2. Blue Prince?—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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At my university, University of Southern California, a multi-ethnic ecumenical cohort held candlelight vigils, teach-ins, and rallies demanding an end to the slaughter.—
Sandy Tolan,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 2025
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What may do us in isn’t a meteor, a nuclear holocaust or a superpandemic.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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What may do us in isn’t a meteor, a nuclear holocaust or a superpandemic.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Watching the ramps drop down over the walls, the barrels roll out onto the battlefield, and the fiery carnage brought on by their explosions?—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
20 Apr. 2025
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TikTok is peppered with videos of carnage at the movie theaters: huge bags of popcorn exploding across aisles, oceans of bodies roiling up and down, rolls of toilet paper flying from seats C2 to K14, boys being escorted by police out of screening rooms.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
16 Apr. 2025
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