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
Over centuries of living under Christian rule, Jews were subject to periods of favor and periods of persecution, pogroms, and expulsions.
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Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
During the Crusades, the Inquisition, and countless pogroms, Jews were demonized as infidels who refused to abandon their faith, even under threat of death.
—Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
And sure enough, Trump’s pogrom against pets has now spread beyond the People’s Republic of Cambridge.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 2025
In the November pogrom, the antisemitisms of reason and emotion, of dispassionate law and thuggish violence, were brought into alignment for Hitler.
—Michael Scott Bryant, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2023
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Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
During the Crusades, the Inquisition, and countless pogroms, Jews were demonized as infidels who refused to abandon their faith, even under threat of death.
—Avi Weiss, New York Daily News, 10 Aug. 2025
And sure enough, Trump’s pogrom against pets has now spread beyond the People’s Republic of Cambridge.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 3 Aug. 2025
In the November pogrom, the antisemitisms of reason and emotion, of dispassionate law and thuggish violence, were brought into alignment for Hitler.
—Michael Scott Bryant, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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The horrifying reports of the massacre of hundreds of Sudanese civilians after the Darfur city of El Fasher was captured by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last week were the latest chapter in a brutal conflict that has killed more than 150,000 people over the past two and a half years.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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The first of the previous massacres in Darfur occurred in the town of El Geneina, in April, 2023; fifteen thousand unarmed civilians were killed.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
7 Nov. 2025
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The horses would be prohibited from being sold for slaughter or for carriage business elsewhere.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
7 Nov. 2025
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Such was slaughter that blood could be seen in sand next to piles of bodies in satellite images from space, according to the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health.—
Abigail Williams,
NBC news,
6 Nov. 2025
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Angel Studios’ Nazi holocaust drama Truth & Treason, based on a true story, opened in sixth place with $2.7 million from 2,106 locations.—
Pamela McClintock,
HollywoodReporter,
19 Oct. 2025
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During our conversation, Brown compared Praxis to Israel—minus a world war and a holocaust, of course.—
Vittoria Elliott,
Wired News,
26 Sep. 2025
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And even then, SDSU would need help from carnage in the American.—
Jon Wilner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
2 Nov. 2025
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As the party collapses into collective, mob-like madness, despair is unleashed along with paranoia, depravity, violence, and carnage.—
Dennis Perkins,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
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