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Recent Examples of labor camp
My father died under the Khmer Rouge, succumbing to dysentery and malnutrition after being forced to work in a labor camp.
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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
Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
Brünnlitz was a German labor camp, and as Spielberg showed in his film, a list was created with names of those who would be relocated there.
—Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2025
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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
Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
Brünnlitz was a German labor camp, and as Spielberg showed in his film, a list was created with names of those who would be relocated there.
—Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for labor camp
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They were sent to the new communist government’s re-education prison camps and forced to do hard labor.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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The mass arrests, at first of mostly non-Jewish Poles, led the Nazis to construct new prison camps or refurbish existing structures, like the former military barracks in Oswiecim, Poland, which opened as the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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Sounds like families being separated to go to concentration camps.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2025
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He was hired as a war crimes investigator and visited concentration camps during the World War II liberation to document Nazi crimes.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
10 June 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
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Plus top prospect Andrew Painter is heading toward his own big-league debut, Aaron Nola is working toward a return from injury and Taijuan Walker is adjusting to a new role in the bullpen.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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Robinson Piña was added to the 40-man roster from Triple A Jacksonville, giving the Marlins another arm in the bullpen, McCullough said.—
Steve Gorten,
Miami Herald,
20 June 2025
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Repeat offenders could face 90 days in jail or a $1,000 fine, or sometimes both.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 June 2025
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In the years since, John has been arrested several times and served jail time for violence against two different women, per The New York Times.—
Kelsey Lentz,
People.com,
23 June 2025
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20camp. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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