holocaust
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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
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
More than 100 million people tuned in to Nicholas Meyer’s “The Day After,” a TV movie that dramatized the effects of nuclear holocaust in Kansas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
The anticipation and promise in her lolling hand are not altered by the holocaust.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
There can be no more holocausts; no more genocides; no more Stalinist gulags.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019
Not only are adults guilty of perpetrating the worst of human sins—wars, holocausts, famines—we over-25s aren’t always all that great at other supposedly “adult” activities, like thinking ahead and extending empathy to others.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2018
“We have to be aware of the fact that holocausts are still going on and that we must do our part to protect people from genocide,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2018
Sikhs have survived multiple holocausts, and served alongside allies in WWI and II.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2012
While the altar of Jerusalem required its holocausts, the breeders of the animals would hardly have been treated as pariahs.
From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams
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