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
During the Crusades, the Inquisition, and countless pogroms, Jews were demonized as infidels who refused to abandon their faith, even under threat of death.
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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
Concord led to our own brand of movies, forged not by old American wealth but by entrepreneurial immigrants from Eastern Europe, many of them Jews escaping pogroms throughout that part of the world: Louis B. Meyer (MGM), Adolph Zukor (Paramount), The Warner Brothers and more.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Thousands were killed during two years of unrest following the first Russian Revolution in 1905, while over 100,000 Jews were killed in Ukrainian pogroms from 1918 to 1921.
—Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
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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
Concord led to our own brand of movies, forged not by old American wealth but by entrepreneurial immigrants from Eastern Europe, many of them Jews escaping pogroms throughout that part of the world: Louis B. Meyer (MGM), Adolph Zukor (Paramount), The Warner Brothers and more.
—Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 July 2025
Thousands were killed during two years of unrest following the first Russian Revolution in 1905, while over 100,000 Jews were killed in Ukrainian pogroms from 1918 to 1921.
—Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
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However, instead of caving to the demands of the USFF's powers-that-be, Cam refuses to sacrifice his soul by signing the contract and proceeds to unleash his strength on everyone involved in the demonic proceedings in an ultra-violent massacre.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
19 Sep. 2025
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Anonymous tips forward to the FBI’s National Threat Operations Center reported threatening posts from a Discord profile that referenced plans for a future massacre and contained pictures of guns.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Sep. 2025
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Warned by ornithologists that killing an insectivorous bird that also ate grain seeds would lead to a surge in locusts and caterpillars, Mao dismissed such arguments and urged mass slaughter.—
Scott Montgomery,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The slaughter of the innocents that follows the birth of Jesus in the Book of Matthew is depicted by limp infants that Gaudí modelled on casts of actual stillborn babies.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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In his director’s statement, the filmmaker reveals that the historical drama mines from his own family’s trauma, linking the effects that both the holocaust and the rise in communism in Hungary had on him and his loved ones.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
25 Aug. 2025
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In the holocaust of the South Bronx, lighting a match could seem like just hastening the inevitable.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit.—
Michael Rechtshaffen,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Sep. 2025
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So many Eagles contributed to the Super Bowl carnage, including Brown, who caught a touchdown pass late in the second quarter to put Philly up 24-0.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pogrom. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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