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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
The Schloss family was betrayed and sent to concentration camps in 1944.
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Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, months before the end of the war.
—CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
Just like the Nazis tried to hide sites in Germany during World War II, those concentration camps that ended up mass murdering six million Jews, this is no different, and the public does not know what’s really happening.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
The director’s grandfather was liberated from German concentration camps and escaped communist Poland to start a new life in Australia.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
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Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026
Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, months before the end of the war.
—CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
Just like the Nazis tried to hide sites in Germany during World War II, those concentration camps that ended up mass murdering six million Jews, this is no different, and the public does not know what’s really happening.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
The director’s grandfather was liberated from German concentration camps and escaped communist Poland to start a new life in Australia.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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The following March, Navarro—at the age of seventy-four—began a four-month sentence in a senior dorm at a federal prison camp in Miami.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Just a week later, Maxwell was moved to a more permissive prison camp in Texas.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
21 Dec. 2025
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After the father, Nathan (Paul Winfield), is arrested for stealing ham and shipped off to an unknown work camp, eldest son David Lee (Kevin Hooks) takes a journey with the family dog, Sounder, to try and find him.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Dec. 2025
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In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
10 Dec. 2025
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People were forced into labor camps in the countryside; schools and temples were turned into prisons; and paddy fields were used as execution sites.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
14 Dec. 2025
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Born in the then-Austro-Hungarian Empire, the 85-year-old said his family was put in a labor camp, subject to starvation.—
Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
5 Dec. 2025
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Fairbanks will headline a bullpen also featuring Luke Bachar, Anthony Bender, Calvin Faucher, Andrew Nardi, Tyler Phillips and perhaps Josh White.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
24 Dec. 2025
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Mitchell Layton / Getty Images The Miami Marlins took a significant step towards bolstering their bullpen, agreeing to a one-year, $13 million deal with right-hander Pete Fairbanks, league sources told The Athletic’s Will Sammon.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
24 Dec. 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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