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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 camps
Stop the warehouse conversions to concentration camps.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
Max Silnicki, who runs the Washington Avenue Barber Shop, shaved the heads of 10,000 Jews in Nazi concentration camps before they were cremated.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
With the exponential rise of deranged talking heads, private prisons, Amazon-like concentration camps, Cop City, local police trained by the Israeli Army, and AI technology to develop inconceivable weapons, the apocalypse does not appear far off.
—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
Last spring marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and the liberation of the last remaining Nazi concentration camps.
—Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
Sasha will escape Vichy France, but her family will still die in the concentration camps.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
While the Nuremberg trials put the Nazi high command on trial, there were still many, many Germans in the SS or who worked at concentration camps who were able to return to everyday life.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026
After the family is discovered and sent to concentration camps, Gies preserves young Anne’s (Billie Boullet) diary and eventually sees its publication.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
Last year, Joseph Ladapo, whom DeSantis had appointed as Florida’s surgeon general in 2021, appeared to compare childhood vaccine schedules to medical experiments conducted by the Nazis in concentration camps.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2026
Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
Max Silnicki, who runs the Washington Avenue Barber Shop, shaved the heads of 10,000 Jews in Nazi concentration camps before they were cremated.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
With the exponential rise of deranged talking heads, private prisons, Amazon-like concentration camps, Cop City, local police trained by the Israeli Army, and AI technology to develop inconceivable weapons, the apocalypse does not appear far off.
—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
Last spring marked the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and the liberation of the last remaining Nazi concentration camps.
—Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026
Sasha will escape Vichy France, but her family will still die in the concentration camps.
—Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
While the Nuremberg trials put the Nazi high command on trial, there were still many, many Germans in the SS or who worked at concentration camps who were able to return to everyday life.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026
After the family is discovered and sent to concentration camps, Gies preserves young Anne’s (Billie Boullet) diary and eventually sees its publication.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Jan. 2026
Last year, Joseph Ladapo, whom DeSantis had appointed as Florida’s surgeon general in 2021, appeared to compare childhood vaccine schedules to medical experiments conducted by the Nazis in concentration camps.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camps
big houses
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Wooden signs dot roadsides advertising homes from the $300,000s for a townhome to over $1 million for big houses in the most desirable suburban neighborhoods.—
Jonathan J. Cooper,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Thank goodness for wealthy people and their big houses.—
Ray Mark Rinaldi,
Denver Post,
7 Dec. 2025
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