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Recent Examples of labor camp
Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work at labor camps in rural areas.
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Ray Cavanaugh, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Perhaps Nasser would not have sent Brothers to prison, labor camps, and the gallows.
—Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2018
My father died under the Khmer Rouge, succumbing to dysentery and malnutrition after being forced to work in a labor camp.
—Sophal Ear, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
The novelist Daniel Kehlmann became interested in film as a child, the son of a father who survived a Nazi labor camp and went on to direct movies and theater.
—David Segal, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Ray Cavanaugh, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Perhaps Nasser would not have sent Brothers to prison, labor camps, and the gallows.
—Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2018
My father died under the Khmer Rouge, succumbing to dysentery and malnutrition after being forced to work in a labor camp.
—Sophal Ear, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
The novelist Daniel Kehlmann became interested in film as a child, the son of a father who survived a Nazi labor camp and went on to direct movies and theater.
—David Segal, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for labor camp
Noun
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In late September, Burke, 81, had checked himself into the low-security federal prison camp at Thomson, Illinois, to start a two-year sentence on his corruption case.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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Contraband phones are easy to get into prison camps.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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Helene has cemented the Tar Heel state as a target for disaster tourism, a cultural phenomenon that recasts war zones as holiday destinations and slots concentration camps onto bucket lists.—
Lila Hempel-Edgers
July 22,
Charlotte Observer,
22 July 2025
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Erik becomes Magneto, and those early experiences in the concentration camp indelibly shaped his character and world view, fueling his nefarious plans for mutants to displace humans as the dominant species on Earth.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 July 2025
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In the series, the submarine is a secret project of the company’s that Nemo, who was a prisoner in a work camp for three years, helped design.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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In an earlier interview, Leili repeatedly denied guarding prisoners at Mauthausen, one of a cluster of work camps in Austria, notorious for a stone quarry where slave laborers spent 11-hour days hauling slabs of granite up a steep rock staircase.—
Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
Noun
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The addition of Duran would solidify the backend of the Yankees' bullpen as one of the best units in baseball.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 July 2025
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Further bullpen upgrades could still be coming, but as for any other specific areas of improvement, Stearns could go either way.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
26 July 2025
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As reported in 5280, Richard served 30 days in jail and 60 nights of work release.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
15 July 2025
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Here’s hoping the real-life couple’s big day went more smoothly than Elizabeth and Henry’s Season 5 vow renewal, which took place at an Arizona jail after she was arrested for speaking out against draconian family separation policies at the United States border.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
15 July 2025
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20camp. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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