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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
One saw his entire family killed in a concentration camp and then wrote a memoir documenting his darkest moments.
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026
After much of the population has been sent to concentration camps, those who remain fight back.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026
Alexander was sent to a concentration camp and later released, but remained under surveillance throughout the rest of the war.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 27 May 2026
Many of the rest of Jaray’s family members were killed in the concentration camps.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026
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Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026
After much of the population has been sent to concentration camps, those who remain fight back.
—Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 29 May 2026
Alexander was sent to a concentration camp and later released, but remained under surveillance throughout the rest of the war.
—David Chiu, PEOPLE, 27 May 2026
Many of the rest of Jaray’s family members were killed in the concentration camps.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 26 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
Noun
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Blanche met with Maxwell last July and days after the meeting, she was transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
10 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
Noun
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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
Noun
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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
Noun
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The bullpen entered Sunday with a 6.71 ERA since ending that scoreless streak on May 25.—
Maddie Lee,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2026
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Puts the bullpen in a bad situation, puts the whole game in a bad situation.—
Justice delos Santos,
Mercury News,
14 June 2026
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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