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holocaust

[hol-uh-kawst, hoh-luh-] / ˈhɒl əˌkɔst, ˈhoʊ lə- /
NOUN
complete destruction, especially by fire
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Alexander Kleytman was a holocaust survivor who came to Australia from Ukraine.

From BBC Dec. 15, 2025

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

In her new research-based what-if book “Nuclear War: A Scenario,” Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen reveals how a nuclear holocaust would play out in real time.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2024

As humans continue to encroach on our planet, we are driving a mass extinction that some experts call a "biological holocaust."

From Salon Apr. 16, 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

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

The holocausts may be regarded as extensions of the earlier custom of slaying one victim, the incarnation of a vegetation-spirit.

From The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. MacCulloch




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