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
Israel was formed by Jews who saw the region as their historical homeland and who were fleeing persecution, pogroms, and the Holocaust in Europe, and persecution throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
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Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
The most infamous pogrom took place in 1903 in Kishinev, a landlocked city in the Russian province of Bessarabia.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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
In his message, Villegas Henriquez criticized Halsema and blamed her policies for the pogrom.
—Canaan Lidor, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
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Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
The most infamous pogrom took place in 1903 in Kishinev, a landlocked city in the Russian province of Bessarabia.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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
In his message, Villegas Henriquez criticized Halsema and blamed her policies for the pogrom.
—Canaan Lidor, Sun Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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One wonders: Would teaching the Tulsa massacre be allowed?—
Alec MacGillis,
ProPublica,
6 Feb. 2025
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The plan seeks to create a level 1 trauma hospital in the area and name it after Dr. A.C. Jackson, a Black surgeon killed during the massacre.—
Russell Contreras,
Axios,
4 Feb. 2025
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Any number of genre films now turn on unsuspecting characters receiving coveted invites from charismatic neo-barons to their remote compounds for luxury, decadence, and ornate slaughter or some variation thereof.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
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Farmers there must submit an odor and pest control plan to the county and can build no more than four barns holding egg-laying hens or eight houses for raising chickens for slaughter.—
Gavin Off,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Jan. 2025
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In addition to the horror of the holocaust, the Institute also needed to represent the idea of freedom and some kind of passageway between the couple.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
8 Jan. 2025
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However, have the protesters ever marched against the holocaust in Syria, where more than 600,000 people were killed to keep a tyrant in power?—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
18 Jan. 2024
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That obscene quality, both in the baseness of the humor and the earnestness of the film’s central romance amidst all the (fake) blood and (shoddy) carnage, paid off: on Friday, Sundance awarded Atropia with its Dramatic Grand Jury Prize.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
31 Jan. 2025
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In the wake of Monday’s carnage within artificial intelligence stocks, JPMorgan found a buying opportunity in Ciena .—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pogrom. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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