holocaust
Example Sentences
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In the 1950s, it was a nuclear holocaust and in the 1960s a population bomb and deforestation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
And it will only get worse, as Frank and other biologists have argued about a "biological holocaust," unless we take action to protect wildlife, including bats.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024
Signs were seen reading "Jews against genocide", and "The grandchild of a holocaust survivor says: Stop Gaza Holocaust."
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2024
But “Godzilla Minus One” returns to the essential nature of Godzilla as a sober symbol of nuclear holocaust and atomic trauma.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2024
It obviously wasn’t functioning from the old GPS satellites—they’d all been destroyed in the radiation holocaust of the sun flares.
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
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