holocaust
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Meanwhile, 95-year-old Mala Tribich was welcomed to Downing Street by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as the first holocaust survivor "ever to address the cabinet".
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2026
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
It is the 37th film in the film series, which usually uses Godzilla as a sober symbol of nuclear holocaust and atomic trauma.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 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
Strauss’s words created alarm over the prospect of nuclear holocaust without laying to rest the public’s anxiety about fallout.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
And apart from this twofold source of interest, an element of deeper satisfaction mingles in the complacency with which it gloats over these pigeon holocausts.
From Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by Calhoun, Lucia Gilbert
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