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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 America is the ultimate answer to the pogrom, and to the emancipation Europe offered on the condition of relinquishing Jewish ethnic and cultural distinctiveness. — Rory Lancman, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2026 A lot of Eastern European Jewish refugees arrived in France after the pogroms and worked as tailors and seamstresses for the couture houses. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for pogrom

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Noun

The Iranian regime killed more civilians in a single weekend of massacres earlier this year than Gaza lost in any twelve months of the war.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2026
Even that defeat wasn’t as bad as Tuesday’s political massacre.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of massacre

Noun

One of the other animals, a ram, tells Wilbur he is being raised for slaughter, leaving him understandably distraught.

— Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
Sierra Canyon’s 56-7 slaughter of Bishop Amat last week sent a message the Trailblazers are focused and ready for their moment.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2026

Definition of slaughter

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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

Definition of holocaust

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Even at their most disturbing, scenes describing carnage tend to be colorful and amusing.

— Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2026
Then, just nine months later, came the collision Wednesday morning that turned a sleepy stretch of rail lined by olive groves near the village of Urda into a scene of carnage.

— Joseph Wilson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

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