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- noun Plural form of
holocaust .
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Examples
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Cynic that I am, I can't help thinking that maybe msm kind of deliberately missed mentioning this on its Diary Pages in favour of possible 'holocausts' elsewhere.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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This was, of course, impossible in the case of "holocausts," in which the victim was burnt whole on the altar.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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Stubbs speaks of her father's "holocausts" of victims.
The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856
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This 'Jewish Holocaust' was one of many 'holocausts' (mass exterminations of a people) that civilizations have suffered in the last few thousand years of human history,
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Widely seen but misleading films and politicized accusations of countries perpetrating "holocausts"
WN.com - Articles related to Tourism, religion threaten Ethiopia's tribal warriors 2009
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Widely seen but misleading films and politicized accusations of countries perpetrating "holocausts"
WN.com - Articles related to Tourism, religion threaten Ethiopia's tribal warriors 2009
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Whoever tries to end the mass killing of children may confidently expect to be charged with refusal to oppose a score of other "holocausts" its advocates have invented to exculpate themselves.
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Whoever tries to end the mass killing of children may confidently expect to be charged with refusal to oppose a score of other "holocausts" its advocates have invented to exculpate themselves.
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Whoever tries to end the mass killing of children may confidently expect to be charged with refusal to oppose a score of other "holocausts" its advocates have invented to exculpate themselves.
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This 'Jewish Holocaust' was one of many 'holocausts' (mass exterminations of a people) that civilizations have suffered in the last few thousand years of human history, but it is one which we are never for one moment allowed to forget, it is 'milked' for all it is worth, but even that is starting to lose value, when the victims of this one are the perpetrators of another ongoing one, with the rest of the world standing by, again, and doing nothing to stop it.
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