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Washington — In December 2022, Paul Whelan was sitting in a factory at a Russian labor camp in Mordovia, more than seven hours east of Moscow, adding buttons and buttonholes to winter coats.
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Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
So, in 2020, you're sentenced to 16 years in a Russian labor camp.
—CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
The ambassadors and the consular teams from my four countries, America, Canada, Ireland and England would come and visit me on a regular basis at the labor camp.
—CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
At the labor camp, guards woke him up every two hours every night for four years.
—Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
So, in 2020, you're sentenced to 16 years in a Russian labor camp.
—CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
The ambassadors and the consular teams from my four countries, America, Canada, Ireland and England would come and visit me on a regular basis at the labor camp.
—CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
At the labor camp, guards woke him up every two hours every night for four years.
—Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for labor camp
Noun
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There are Earthquakes and opera singers and prison camps for human experimentation.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Advertisement Though he had been banned from baseball since 1989, served five months in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion, was a known philanderer and a largely unsuccessful gambler, Rose remained one of the most beloved former athletes in the nation.—
Mike Kupper,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Sep. 2024
Noun
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New York Supreme Court Judge Althea Drysdale on April 23 ordered the Art Institute of Chicago to return a drawing by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele to the heirs of its onetime owner, who died in a concentration camp in 1941.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
25 Apr. 2025
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Somehow Petr had managed to bring his birthday gift to the station unnoticed among the family’s suitcases, and 87 years later concentration camp survivor Gidon Lev still feels the sting of being forced to leave it behind.—
Dina Kraft,
Christian Science Monitor,
24 Apr. 2025
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Communal meals were served in the multi-ethnic work camps as plantation workers needed nutritious, hearty meals portioned to keep them going all day long.—
Ben Davidson,
Mercury News,
1 May 2025
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Saw tells his followers he was forced into slave labor at an Imperial work camp on his home planet Onderon.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Holmes, who had given up only one home run all season prior to Wednesday, gave up two home runs while the Bucs and their bullpen shut down the Mets.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2025
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Houston’s bullpen did not stir, underscoring the weight Gordon bore Wednesday.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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He was convicted and died in jail while awaiting sentencing in 2023.—
Eric Shawn,
FOXNews.com,
3 May 2025
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Some former members of the fraternity were sentenced to several days in jail for providing alcohol at an initiation event to a minor, and Washington State University removed official recognition of the fraternity until May 2026.—
Alisha Ebrahimji,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20camp. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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