as in pogrom
the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group
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The movie tells the story of four tech billionaires gathering together in a mountain retreat while much of the world descends into rioting, populist pogroms, and potential civil war because of a new content-creation tool just released by one of the ...—
Michael Brendan Dougherty,
National Review,
27 June 2025 -
Glass is a human invention, and its breakage is inevitably associated with human violence or a human accident: a burglar’s incursion, a child’s wayward baseball, a pogrom.—
Ian Bogost,
The Atlantic,
22 May 2025
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Orlov also pointed her to Voit's location, leading to the hospital massacre and her abduction of Voit and Dr. Ochoa.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
10 July 2025
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The season traces the brutal machinery of empire: propaganda, collaborators, betrayal and the looming massacre of civilians on Ghorman, a peaceful planet crushed for daring to protest.—
Los Angeles Times Staff,
Los Angeles Times,
3 July 2025
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The first half begins in Poland, where seven-year-old Jakob Beer is the sole member of his Jewish family to survive the Nazis’ brutal slaughter.—
Mia Barzilay Freund,
Vogue,
7 July 2025
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Jess remembers her first on-farm slaughter years ago when a female spooked and tore through the woods.—
Bennet Goldstein,
jsonline.com,
4 July 2025
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The mostly impressionistic plot centers a French woman visiting Hiroshima to film an anti-nuclear war film—a postmortem attempt at documenting Japan’s holocaust.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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During the holocaust [sic] our grandparents would have been delighted if people in the free world had stood up for them.—
Ben Sales,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2025
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Gregory, a horrified business owner who was arriving at work in Sunset Park when the battered BMW sped past him, said he was stunned by the carnage the BMW left behind.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
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Voicework: Doogie Is Deadpool Deadpool VR nails the carnage, but the cherry on top is Deadpool himself.—
Zackery Cuevas,
PC Magazine,
15 June 2025
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Their target: a U.S. fugitive linked to multiple murders.—
Aya Al-Hakim,
People.com,
13 July 2025
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Michael Proctor, a former homicide detective with the Massachusetts State Police, lost his job but may still resurface in the upcoming murder trial of Brian Walshe – who is accused of killing his wife Ana outside Boston.—
Michael Ruiz,
FOXNews.com,
13 July 2025
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Griffiths brings the journey of wild turkey from the hunt to the table, offering readers a guide that includes butchery and over 100 recipes.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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While the Pahalgam massacre triggered Jews with flashbacks to October 7, October 7, in turn, triggered Hindus with flashbacks to the sadistic butchery in Kashmir over three decades ago.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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His striking work, Protest, depicts the bloodshed of Sri Lanka’s long civil war, using books that are charred or rendered illegible, often decorated with symbolic or figurative objects, like toy-soldier figurines marching across a soiled page.—
Thessaly La Force,
Travel + Leisure,
4 July 2025
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So far, few other details have been provided regarding the boardwalk bloodshed.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
1 July 2025
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“Genocide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genocide. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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