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a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions
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Recent Examples of concentration camp
During World War II, the U.S. government incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in 10 concentration camps.
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Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
So now our unelected state attorney general has proposed a concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades with a convenient airstrip for hustling people out of the country without due process.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2025
Millions of people have visited Europe’s concentration camps like Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Freundlich was sent to a concentration camp on March 4, 1943, and died there five days later.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
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Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
So now our unelected state attorney general has proposed a concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades with a convenient airstrip for hustling people out of the country without due process.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 26 June 2025
Millions of people have visited Europe’s concentration camps like Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Freundlich was sent to a concentration camp on March 4, 1943, and died there five days later.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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In late September, Burke, 81, had checked himself into the low-security federal prison camp at Thomson, Illinois, to start a two-year sentence on his corruption case.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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Contraband phones are easy to get into prison camps.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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In the series, the submarine is a secret project of the company’s that Nemo, who was a prisoner in a work camp for three years, helped design.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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In an earlier interview, Leili repeatedly denied guarding prisoners at Mauthausen, one of a cluster of work camps in Austria, notorious for a stone quarry where slave laborers spent 11-hour days hauling slabs of granite up a steep rock staircase.—
Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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As a result, practitioners of Falun Gong have faced persecution in China, with thousands imprisoned or sent to labor camps, according to a Human Rights Watch report.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
13 May 2025
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They’re housed in crowded labor camps and their passports are held by their employers, rendering them captive.—
Sonali Kolhatkar,
Sun Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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That unearned score, coupled with stellar pitching out of the bullpen, was enough to win it for the A’s on Saturday.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
13 July 2025
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Those staffing issues are in conjunction with Colorado being behind in overall technology, according to bullpen coach Dustin Garneau.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
12 July 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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