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pogrom

noun

Definition of pogrom

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 Later in the 19th century, pogroms across Eastern Europe and the aftermath of Italian reunification drove a surge of migration to the United States. — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026 Felix Kallmann, who, in addition to collecting art, ran a lightbulb-making company called Deutsche Gasglühlicht and the film production company Universum Film AG de Babelsberg, died of a heart attack a few days after the Kristallnacht pogrom. — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026 Other ancestors had fled aboard the Mayflower from the persecution of Puritans in England, aboard a steamship from pogroms in Ukraine, aboard a schooner from Spanish repression in Cuba. — Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026 My parents escaped the pogroms of eastern Europe, came here and faced hardships. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 29 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for pogrom

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Poho said the case was about more than compensation, explaining that the effects of the massacre had been felt across the wider Sharpeville community.

— Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Just last month, two key organizers behind what used to be the only large-scale public commemoration of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre on Chinese soil were found guilty of inciting subversion.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026

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They would be housed in a large, rectangular, concrete-block building that had originally been a holding pen and slaughter area for livestock.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 31 Aug. 2026
Many leaders of the slaughter were tried and convicted by a United Nations war crimes tribunal that has now closed down.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

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August 29, the fictional date (in 1997) of the franchise’s original nuclear holocaust, is fast approaching, and Judgment Day is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026
Fears about environmental devastation, overpopulation, energy depletion, and a nuclear holocaust were omnipresent, manifested in books such as The Population Bomb, the back-to-the-land movement, and the entire Hollywood disaster-movie genre.

— James Kirchick, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026

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