as in genocide
the organized killing of many helpless people usually because of their race or religion
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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.
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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
Lesser recounted his story of survival, detailing how his family evaded the Krakow Ghetto, escaped a Nazi pogrom, and endured the Bochnia Ghetto, according to a news release.
—Dawn Giangiulio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
The violence quickly escalated nationwide, with ultranationalist groups and gangs organizing further attacks across several cities, prompting some Turkish outlets to characterize the events as pogroms.
—Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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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
Lesser recounted his story of survival, detailing how his family evaded the Krakow Ghetto, escaped a Nazi pogrom, and endured the Bochnia Ghetto, according to a news release.
—Dawn Giangiulio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2025
The violence quickly escalated nationwide, with ultranationalist groups and gangs organizing further attacks across several cities, prompting some Turkish outlets to characterize the events as pogroms.
—Alia Malek, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pogrom
Noun
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Breivik refers to Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a massacre in Norway in 2011 that targeted mostly teenagers at a camp.—
Evan Mealins,
USA Today,
25 May 2025
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Israel-Palestine sharpened the divide: Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre re-traumatized a community still marked by the Shoah, even as images of Gazan suffering resonated with Black memories of state violence.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
24 May 2025
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Criticism over big business moves In the decades that followed, Ramaphosa went from a union leader to a corporate board member implicated in stoking the slaughter of striking workers.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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He was made to watch what Trump took to be evidence that the South African government was presiding over the slaughter of white Afrikaners.—
Jonny Steinberg,
Time,
22 May 2025
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Paul Hill, who was executed for gunning down a Florida clinic doctor and a volunteer in 1994, cited Bonhoeffer in viewing the attacks against clinics as a way of preventing a holocaust.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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What may do us in isn’t a meteor, a nuclear holocaust or a superpandemic.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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Prom Queen ends in carnage when Megan realizes some of the other prom queen nominees, Christy Renault (Greenblatt), Melissa (Rubin) and Debbie (Ablack) have vanished.—
Jane LaCroix,
People.com,
24 May 2025
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Structurally, this is a gigantic change, perhaps even revolutionary, though the driving itself is quintessentially Mario Kart: drifting elegance, power-up carnage, albeit now featuring up to 24 competitors, which means the on-road action is set to be even more frenzied.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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“Pogrom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pogrom. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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