How to Use persecution in a Sentence

persecution

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  • Some Jews found Stars of David painted on their homes, an echo of the Nazi persecution.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The plight of people who are displaced from their homes due to war and persecution is top of mind for many.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Holocaust was the largest loss of Jewish life in their long history of persecution and pogroms.
    — Nick Watt, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The Prophet is portrayed as imperfect yet earnest, courageous in the face of persecution.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • In Vladimir Putin’s delirious telling, their persecution was normal and just.
    — Bernard-Henri Lévy, wsj.com, 4 May 2023
  • The persecution of Lai is part of the party’s merciless campaign to crush the remaining freedoms of the island city.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Most of the people going to the U.S.-Mexico border are fleeing persecution or poverty in their home countries.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 May 2023
  • The Russian and Chechen governments have both maintained that the persecution never took place.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Or, for that matter, with the idea that antisemitism would not exist if Jews did not provoke their own persecution.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The accusations and persecution died down only in the latter half of the 18th century.
    — Silvia Federici, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2023
  • What about the more overt persecution of comedy that Nesteroff traces?
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Some of them are fleeing persecution, but some of them are understandably coming here to look for a better life.
    — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The work embraces a devotion to Catholicism, which, during the time of Shakespeare, was a sect subject to widespread persecution.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The story begins in the 1830s, when patriarch David Sassoon, son of the chief treasurer to the pashas of Baghdad, was forced to flee due to the persecution of the city’s Jewish population.
    — James Reginato, Town & Country, 2 Mar. 2023
  • They were also driven by persecution of Sikhs in India, which then-Sen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The Kukis, who are from the same ethnic group as the Chins, say the government has unfairly cracked down the group since their arrival, leading to feelings of persecution and abandonment.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 8 May 2023
  • Dehgan fled Iran to escape persecution for trying to defend clients before some of these judges.
    — Miriam Berger, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • For the pragmatic lawmakers currently in office, the choice to back Trump is out of fear of persecution from his loyal base in the party, many members say.
    — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • They have been identified as people who escaped persecution and who should not be forced to return to danger.
    — Kate Morrissey, Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2023
  • And migrants, fleeing poverty, gangs and persecution in their homelands, were still desperate to reach U.S. soil at any cost.
    — Valerie Gonzalez, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2023
  • Russian lawyers associations have called on advocates across Russia to hold a strike Oct. 25 to 27 to protest the persecution of lawyers.
    — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
  • In Afghanistan, the Taliban's gender persecution may be a crime against humanity.
    — CBS News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The artist has erected many of these stone memorials to Jews, homosexuals, the disabled and Romani who died as a result of Nazi persecution.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 Feb. 2023
  • In the minds of many people who oppose the Israeli government, Israel’s treatment of Palestinians has long been a form of ethnic persecution.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Jews fleeing in the middle of the night rely on their knowledge, wisdom, and resilience to survive persecution, war, and political shifts.
    — Geri Stengel, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Another route to work permits is applying for asylum based on fear of persecution back home.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Some but not all people crossing the Mediterranean are fleeing conflict or persecution.
    — Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Some returning refugees face persecution at the hands of the Taliban authorities.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Despite efforts to hold Assad accountable for the losses, in May he was welcomed back into the Arab fold in a move opposed by Western states and many of the refugees who fled persecution under his rule.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Using infamy and persecution, Alexandra’s method becomes a new version of hostage videos.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Oct. 2023

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