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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
The director’s grandfather was liberated from German concentration camps and escaped communist Poland to start a new life in Australia.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
Items that would have been up for auction included letters written by prisoners in concentration camps, as well as Gestapo index cards and other perpetrator documents, The Associated Press reported, citing German news agency dpa.
—Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025
Roberto Benigni plays Guido, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, sent to a concentration camp with his son.
—NPR, 15 Nov. 2025
In the book’s first half, Frankl recounts his time as a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps, describing not only his experiences but also his observations of others.
—Big Think, 14 Nov. 2025
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
Items that would have been up for auction included letters written by prisoners in concentration camps, as well as Gestapo index cards and other perpetrator documents, The Associated Press reported, citing German news agency dpa.
—Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025
Roberto Benigni plays Guido, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, sent to a concentration camp with his son.
—NPR, 15 Nov. 2025
In the book’s first half, Frankl recounts his time as a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps, describing not only his experiences but also his observations of others.
—Big Think, 14 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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The following March, Navarro—at the age of seventy-four—began a four-month sentence in a senior dorm at a federal prison camp in Miami.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Just a week later, Maxwell was moved to a more permissive prison camp in Texas.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
21 Dec. 2025
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At its peak, the prison held 3,000 inmates in 30 work camps across the island.—
Maya Duclay,
ABC News,
23 Oct. 2025
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The officials are using the existing minimum security prison work camp in McCook, located around 210 miles west of Lincoln.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
20 Aug. 2025
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Some paid dearly for their dissent by losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Oct. 2025
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The novel was inspired by Steinbeck’s journalism work, particularly for The San Francisco News, which had commissioned him to cover migrant labor camps in the Salinas valley.—
Paul Slovak
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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With pitching questions in both the starting rotation and the bullpen plus a huge gap at third base, New York will have plenty of spots to fill in the upcoming offseason.—
Drew VonScio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Not even necessarily for the beneficial bullpen vibes, though those wouldn’t hurt.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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