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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
Stop the warehouse conversions to concentration camps.
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
Britain was being relentlessly bombed by the Luftwaffe, Germany had invaded France, Belgium, and Holland, and the concentration camp at Auschwitz had opened.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 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
To disassociate Braunau from Hitler’s legacy, the town government in 1989 placed a granite block from the Mauthausen concentration camp quarry before the building, inscribed with a memorial to the victims of fascism.
—Cary Lowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
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Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
Britain was being relentlessly bombed by the Luftwaffe, Germany had invaded France, Belgium, and Holland, and the concentration camp at Auschwitz had opened.
—Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 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
To disassociate Braunau from Hitler’s legacy, the town government in 1989 placed a granite block from the Mauthausen concentration camp quarry before the building, inscribed with a memorial to the victims of fascism.
—Cary Lowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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Bale was 12 when Steven Spielberg cast him in the incredibly challenging role of Jim, the son of a wealthy British family who gets separated during World War II and ends up in a Japanese prison camp.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
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The resisters were transferred from a prison camp to a more restrictive jail, Tulelake Camp, located more than 10 miles away, said Ron Nakano, with the Marysville JACL, noting that the two camps are distinct but often confused.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
19 Feb. 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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An inmate serving a 10-year sentence for first-degree burglary walked away from a state prison work camp Monday night in El Dorado County, state officials said.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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In The Weight, Hawke plays Samuel Murphy, who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer played by Russell Crowe.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Feb. 2026
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In one, she was sent to a labor camp after giving birth.—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Junk entered camp as a contender for a roster spot, either in the back end of the rotation or as a swingman/long reliever out of the bullpen.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
17 Feb. 2026
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Ethan Walker and Sam Cozart came out of the bullpen to calm the Lamar bats down.—
David Eckert,
Austin American Statesman,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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