: an organized massacre of helpless people
specifically
: such a massacre of Jews
pogromed; pogroming; pogroms
: to massacre or destroy in a pogrom
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Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
This perception was integral to the hate that motivated mass violence in Europe as late as the 19th and 20th centuries, including pogroms in Russia and even Nazi genocide.
—Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
The killings, which began with clashes between Assad loyalists and pro-government forces, turned into an all-out sectarian pogrom targeting Alawites, members of an Islamic sect who dominate Syria’s coastal regions and are viewed by some Muslims as apostates.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Its residents have burned Palestinian olive groves, cars, homes, and mosques, and rampaged through villages in deadly attacks that even some Israeli officials have felt comfortable calling pogroms.
—Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
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Noun
For us as Jews, Easter has far more sinister overtones — of the passages from the Gospels that gave birth to modern antisemitism, of passion plays, pogroms, and emotional fuel for the literal fires that consumed our people.
—Joshua Stanton, New York Daily News, 20 Apr. 2025
This perception was integral to the hate that motivated mass violence in Europe as late as the 19th and 20th centuries, including pogroms in Russia and even Nazi genocide.
—Nathanael Andrade, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2025
The killings, which began with clashes between Assad loyalists and pro-government forces, turned into an all-out sectarian pogrom targeting Alawites, members of an Islamic sect who dominate Syria’s coastal regions and are viewed by some Muslims as apostates.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
Its residents have burned Palestinian olive groves, cars, homes, and mosques, and rampaged through villages in deadly attacks that even some Israeli officials have felt comfortable calling pogroms.
—Ben Ehrenreich, Harpers Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 13 May. 2025.
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