as in prison camp
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
Many of the rest of Jaray’s family members were killed in the concentration camps.
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026
What there pointedly are not, in this wartime film, are war scenes, or footage from the concentration camps or even a suggestion of much actual physical violence in the background.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 May 2026
His past films have covered the Hungarian Uprising, the fraught lead-up to WWI and, in 2015’s excruciating Son of Saul, life and death in a Nazi concentration camp.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
Most have buried their concentration camp stories in attics and basements and trash cans and boxes.
—Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
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Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026
What there pointedly are not, in this wartime film, are war scenes, or footage from the concentration camps or even a suggestion of much actual physical violence in the background.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 May 2026
His past films have covered the Hungarian Uprising, the fraught lead-up to WWI and, in 2015’s excruciating Son of Saul, life and death in a Nazi concentration camp.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
Most have buried their concentration camp stories in attics and basements and trash cans and boxes.
—Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
Noun
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Arthur Cofield is considered armed and dangerous and has not been seen since escaping from a federal prison camp in Georgia.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
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The Justice Department moved Maxwell from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas last August.—
Stephen Groves,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Mike Braun opened the Speedway Slammer at an Indiana prison, Jim Pillen opened the Cornhusker Clink at a Nebraska work camp, and Jeff Landry opened the Louisiana Lockup in a disused wing of Angola penitentiary.—
Eric Schlosser,
The Atlantic,
4 June 2026
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And Nazi officials had promised Auschwitz’s Buna work camp thousands of skilled Jewish laborers – a quota that was not met because of the Rosenstrasse Jews’ release.—
Danielle Wirsansky,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2026
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He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.—
Nick Tabor,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
29 Apr. 2026
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The labor camp, already on the National Register of Historic Places, was run by Tom Collins, to whom Steinbeck dedicated his 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Grapes of Wrath.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2026
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The Miami Marlins went with a bullpen game Tuesday, their only option with a battered pitching staff.—
Danielle Allentuck,
Washington Post,
3 June 2026
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The Pirates trailed by 2 with no outs and two on in the sixth before Cruz launched his 14th homer of the season into the bullpen in right-center field to give them a 5-4 lead.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 June 2026
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 14 Jun. 2026.
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