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Recent Examples of labor camp
These shows were a prelude to genocidal violence in Namibia, which housed the first German labor camps.
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Aatish Taseer, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2025
Some paid dearly for their dissent by losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
As a teenager, Wiesel was sent with his father, Shlomo, to the Buna Werke labor camp in the Auschwitz complex.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
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Aatish Taseer, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2025
Some paid dearly for their dissent by losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
As a teenager, Wiesel was sent with his father, Shlomo, to the Buna Werke labor camp in the Auschwitz complex.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for labor 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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Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, months before the end of the war.—
Jill Lawless,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Schloss family was betrayed and sent to concentration camps in 1944.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
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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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With pitching questions in both the starting rotation and the bullpen plus a huge gap at third base, New York will have plenty of spots to fill in the upcoming offseason.—
Drew VonScio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Not even necessarily for the beneficial bullpen vibes, though those wouldn’t hurt.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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According to online jail records, his bail was set at $250,000.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Jan. 2026
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The cost of Kansas City’s temporary jail facility could jump by nearly $4 million as a city committee recommend additional funding and waiving environmental building standards to keep the project on track for completion before the 2026 FIFA World Cup.—
Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20camp. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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