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• Depending on the case, extermination of a group of people may constitute genocide or crime against humanity.From the entry extermination
• Some historians have since classified the Siege of Leningrad as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.From the entry starve
• They provided zero dollars to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+.2026 April 9, Canadian official claims 'genocide' against 'MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+' people, spoken by Leah Gazan. From the entry MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+
• The attraction to celebrating a genocide or mass shooter was, on some level, that others wouldn’t.2022, Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World, Quercus Editions Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry 8channer
• Finally, the colonisers were attempting genocide, they wanted us all dead.2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in…. From the entry coloniser
• Maybe you shouldn't tell anyone you admire the last species that attempted to commit galaxy-wide multi-species genocide.”[2017 November, N. K. Jemisin, Mac Walters, chapter 8, in Mass Effect Andromeda: Initiation, 1st edition (Science Fiction), Titan Books…. From the entry multispecies
• Anthropologists and Brazilian frontiersmen called sertanistas likened the policy to genocide.2015 August 8, Andrew Lawler, “Do the Amazon’s Last Isolated Tribes Have a Future?”, in New York Times. From the entry sertanistas
• Even in death, trans women of color cannot escape the trauma of colonialism and genocide.2013, "Witchymorgan", "On the Labor Movement and Transmisogyny", Black & Pink, May 2013, page 4. From the entry cishet
• It also, however, contains the potential for negative capability that might help transform genocide into something generative.2011, Sidner Larson, Captured in the Middle, →ISBN, page 147. From the entry negative capability
• How many genocides? maybe you would be happier in Saudi Barbaria, Iran, Pigistan, Malaysia or Indonesia.2008 September 7, ßDoüg±Ç, “YOU AIN'T GONNA LIKE LOSING”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 Feb 2026. From the entry Pigistan
• The "cultural revolution" is still goïng on in Tibet, you can also call it cultural genocide.2001 January 13, Peter Terpstra, “Dalai Lama's Views On Economic Meltdown.”, in hk.politics (Usenet), retrieved 25 May 2022. From the entry goïng
• They (Germany) went in to cleanse themselves of genocide and apply for readmission to the human race.1981 March 23, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Devil You Know”, in Yes Minister, season 2, episode 5, spoken by Humphrey Appleby (Nigel…. From the entry readmission
• And the AI somehow went right into white genocide garbage.2025 May 15, Matt Novak, “Grok AI’s Funniest Tweets About ‘White Genocide’ in South Africa”, in Gizmodo. From the entry jork
• What would I do if my country was committing genocide?2024 February 26, Courtney Kube, Marlene Lenthang, Corky Siemaszko, quoting Aaron Bushnell, “U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire…. From the entry Jim Crow
• I believe this genocide is ongoing, and that we are witnessing the systematic attempt to destroy Uyghurs by the Chinese party-state.2021 January 19, Michael Pompeo, “Determination of the Secretary of State on Atrocities in Xinjiang”, in US State Department, archived…. From the entry party state
• Thus, settler colonialism involves a daedal arrangement of justifications and unhistories in order to deny genocide and brutality.2014, Eve Tuck, Marcia McKenzie, Place in Research: Theory, Methodology, and Methods, page 154. From the entry unhistory
• Duranty was recognized for what he wrote before he bore false witness about the Holodomor, as Ukrainians refer to this genocide.2004, Lubomyr Y. Luciuk, Not Worthy: Walter Duranty’s Pulitzer Prize and the New York Times, Kingston, Canada: Kashtan Press, p 152. From the entry Holodomor
• Cambodia was subjected to a genocide of Hitlerian proportions.1987 May, “Playboy Interview: Prince Norodom Sihanouk”, in Playboy, volume 34, number 5, Chicago, Illinois: Hugh M. Hefner, →ISSN, page…. From the entry Hitlerian
• Today, the blockade and genocide continues.2023 December 26, Lynn Zovighian, “Azerbaijan Rewarded a Year After the Lachin Corridor Blockade and Genocide”, in Newsweek, New York…. From the entry Artsakhi
• Ahuman antinatalism is not efilism (the end-all-carbon-based-life fetishization of Buddhism) and it is not genocide, eugenics, or any other thoroughly human hierarchical form of violence.2020, Rick Dolphijn, “The Non-Human, Systems, and New Materialism”, in Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Jacob Wamberg, editors, The Bloomsbury…. From the entry efilism
• Never again is now.” She points out that there are contemporary genocides and many human rights violations happening at this very second.2014, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Whitney Douglas, Sara W. Fry, The Activist Learner: Inquiry, Literacy, and Service to Make Learning Better…. From the entry never again
• If genocide and, hence, the Holocaust in particular, are to be better understood, then the roots of annihilationism—the origins of ultra-extreme intolerance—need to be explored.2014, Linda S Katz, The Holocaust: Memories, Research, Reference, Routledge, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry annihilationism
• In his short story, the Vietnam War becomes an amalgam of all modern wars and genocides and Vietnam itself an extended traumascape.2007, Magali Compan, Katarzyna Pieprzak, Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature. From the entry traumascape
• Certainly, one could imagine this kind of systematic denial of the resources required to live as a form of politicide -- or political genocide.2002 May 20, Samantha Power, “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide”, in Washington Post. From the entry politicide
• Thus it was possible to commit genocide by means of economicide and this, in turn, was the direct result of state planning.1988, International Freedom Review: 1988:Fall-1989:Summer, page 7. From the entry economicide
• It is there in Trump’s decision to grant asylum to white South Africans because of a fictitious “white genocide” said to be taking place in their country.2026 January 21, David Smith, “Trump paints himself as great white hope in racism-drenched Davos speech”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived…. From the entry fictitious
• To take an example from a clear case of genocide—Rwanda—the Hutu génocidaires did not appear to want to destroy all Tutsis everywhere, but only in Rwanda.2019, Robert Cryer, Darryl Robinson, Sergey Vasiliev, chapter 10, in An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure, Fourth…. From the entry genocidaire
• This enhances fears that Armenian identity will slowly disappear through a process of 'white genocide', and in turn results in the belief that Armenian Diaspora communities are in danger.2016 April 4, Alexis Demirdjian, The Armenian Genocide Legacy, Springer, →ISBN, page 266. From the entry white genocide
• But in the case of the New World—Americas and Australia—the Europeans settled down and replicated their societies and marginalised the natives (aborigines) through genocide and culturocide.2013, Ishwar modi, Readings in Indian Sociology: Volume X: Pioneers of Sociology in India, →ISBN. From the entry culturocide
• Charny's expansivist understanding of genocide even goes as far as claiming that massive deaths resulting from the meltdown of a nuclear reactor would count as genocide.2012, Ken Booth, The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions, page 32. From the entry expansivist
• Historians such as Liah Greenfield and Daniel Chirot have attributed the major wars and genocides in the early decades of the 20th century to ressentiment in Germany and Russia.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 632. From the entry ressentiment

Meaning of genocide

1. noun The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, or similar grounds.
2. noun The systematic suppression of ideas or practices on the basis of cultural or ethnic origin; culturicide.
3. noun The elimination of an entire class of monsters by the player in roguelikes.

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How do you use genocide in a sentence?

Genocide is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A genocide will always be followed by the denial that it ever happened.”

What is a short sentence with genocide?

“Today, the blockade and genocide continues.”

What does genocide mean?

Genocide means the systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people; typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, or similar grounds.