concentration camp

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Recent Examples of concentration camp But the concentration camp inmates couldn’t digest the food, and hundreds of them actually died from refeeding syndrome. Elizabeth Yuko, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025 This particular photo was taken looking outward through a wooden window at the Heart Mountain concentration camp near Cody, Wyoming, where thousands of Japanese people were held during World War II. Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 18 Aug. 2025 Case in point, James Moll’s The Last Days, which zeroes in on a handful of Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust in the last year of World War II, when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary and began mass deportation to concentration camps. Will Harris, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2025 As the troops arrived Tuesday, D.C. residents who spoke to the Washington Examiner shared a variety of reactions ranging from support for the president’s actions to horror at the prospect of being sent to a concentration camp. Haisten Willis, The Washington Examiner, 12 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for concentration camp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
Noun
  • Todd Chrisley was being released from a minimum-security federal prison camp in Pensacola, FL, Julie Chrisley was being released from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, KY, and the rest of the family lives near Nashville.
    Peter White, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Soon after giving the interviews in late July, she was transferred to a cushier, minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Work Ethic Camp, a minimum security prison work camp in McCook, Nebraska, will be used as the site of the immigration detention center.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As a teenager, Wiesel was sent with his father, Shlomo, to the Buna Werke labor camp in the Auschwitz complex.
    Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • However, the bullpen failed to maintain the lead as the offense fell flat.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Depth is needed for the Cubs' pitching staff, and Buehler could certainly help as a swing man, working between the bullpen and starting rotation.
    Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025

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