: 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 Barone, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Noting that her grandparents had escaped pogroms in Russia, Goldin remarked that the events in Gaza reminded her of those pogroms.
—News Desk, Artforum, 25 Nov. 2024
But pioneering Zionist settlement in Palestine began as a secularist revolution against religious Diaspora parochialism as much as against pogroms.
—Bernard Avishai, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Hamas began this war on Oct. 7, 2023, with a pogrom against Israel, murdering, raping, burning, kidnapping.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
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Noun
There was humor in Kosky’s staging, but it was replaced by horror at what suddenly started to look like a pogrom.
—Joshua Barone, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Noting that her grandparents had escaped pogroms in Russia, Goldin remarked that the events in Gaza reminded her of those pogroms.
—News Desk, Artforum, 25 Nov. 2024
But pioneering Zionist settlement in Palestine began as a secularist revolution against religious Diaspora parochialism as much as against pogroms.
—Bernard Avishai, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
Hamas began this war on Oct. 7, 2023, with a pogrom against Israel, murdering, raping, burning, kidnapping.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pogrom. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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