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Recent Examples of labor camp
But told his semen will be used to artificially inseminate women before he’s killed at a labor camp?
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 July 2025
As a result, practitioners of Falun Gong have faced persecution in China, with thousands imprisoned or sent to labor camps, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 13 May 2025
They’re housed in crowded labor camps and their passports are held by their employers, rendering them captive.
—Sonali Kolhatkar, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2025
Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 May 2025
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 July 2025
As a result, practitioners of Falun Gong have faced persecution in China, with thousands imprisoned or sent to labor camps, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
—Juliana Kim, NPR, 13 May 2025
They’re housed in crowded labor camps and their passports are held by their employers, rendering them captive.
—Sonali Kolhatkar, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2025
Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for labor camp
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After that interview, Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Maxwell was convicted and is serving a 20-year prison sentence at an all-female federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she was recently moved from a minimum security prison in Tallahassee, Florida.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
5 Aug. 2025
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As the troops arrived Tuesday, D.C. residents who spoke to the Washington Examiner shared a variety of reactions ranging from support for the president’s actions to horror at the prospect of being sent to a concentration camp.—
Haisten Willis,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Aug. 2025
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Multiple attendees referred to the new Florida immigrant detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz as a concentration camp.—
Lawrence Andrea,
jsonline.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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He was sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 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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And Tuesday’s 10-5 Padres victory went 11 innings, prompting manager Mike Shildt to use seven of the nine arms in his bullpen.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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With the lefty-swinging Rowdy Tellez up next, Boone kept Williams in the game despite having David Bednar warming in the bullpen.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
6 Aug. 2025
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The Associated Press in 2021 investigated how the technology landed a Chicago grandfather in jail after it was used as evidence to charge him with murder, with a judge later dismissing the case due to insufficient evidence.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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The evidence reviewed by a grand jury includes a video call in which Ault allegedly pleads with the child not to speak up, saying that doing so could land her in jail, 8 News Now reported.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20camp. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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