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

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

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