: an organized massacre of helpless people
specifically : such a massacre of Jews
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Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026 Batra left India in the 1980s, after her parents were murdered during a state pogrom against Sikhs, according to the Texas Observer. —Brooke Migdon, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026 Four months after Evian, the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a Jewish youth whose family had just been expelled from Germany became the pretext for the Nazi pogrom known as Kristallnacht. —George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026 And the settlers take advantage of the war; there are now daily, perhaps hourly, pogroms, including killing Palestinians in cold blood and with total impunity. —Dahlia Krutkovich, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pogrom
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The investigation has been extended until July, which will mark the 85th anniversary of the pogrom. —Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026 Batra left India in the 1980s, after her parents were murdered during a state pogrom against Sikhs, according to the Texas Observer. —Brooke Migdon, PEOPLE, 16 Apr. 2026 Four months after Evian, the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a Jewish youth whose family had just been expelled from Germany became the pretext for the Nazi pogrom known as Kristallnacht. —George Packer, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2026 And the settlers take advantage of the war; there are now daily, perhaps hourly, pogroms, including killing Palestinians in cold blood and with total impunity. —Dahlia Krutkovich, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for pogrom
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