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Recent Examples of prison camp
His award-winning memoir, A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America (2005, Penguin Random House), detailed his military journey, including reuniting with his father who spent twelve years in prison camps in postwar Vietnam.
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Quang X. Pham, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Her mother was born in a Siberian prison camp.
—Lucas Y. Tomlinson Fox News, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
Holmes, 41, is incarcerated at a federal minimum-security prison camp outside Houston.
—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
Moving migrants in immigration detention awaiting deportation to an offshore prison camp raises novel legal questions.
—Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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Quang X. Pham, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Her mother was born in a Siberian prison camp.
—Lucas Y. Tomlinson Fox News, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
Holmes, 41, is incarcerated at a federal minimum-security prison camp outside Houston.
—Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025
Moving migrants in immigration detention awaiting deportation to an offshore prison camp raises novel legal questions.
—Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
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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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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
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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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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
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Seven inmates are still at large on May 19 after escaping from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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The attack lands him behind bars, not for the first time, with his seven-month jail stint an interstice covered by the first of Dickinson’s vertiginous reality-break sequences.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 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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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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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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