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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.
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Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
The weekend games paid tribute to Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps when they were forced to relocate during WWII.
—Emilie Ikeda, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
And although Peter fought for the rebel cause and now languishes in a Union prison camp, that principled act has led others to suspect his wife of less than ironclad loyalty.
—Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced a surprise move to close 6 federal prison camps and permanently close FCI Dublin.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
The weekend games paid tribute to Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps when they were forced to relocate during WWII.
—Emilie Ikeda, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
And although Peter fought for the rebel cause and now languishes in a Union prison camp, that principled act has led others to suspect his wife of less than ironclad loyalty.
—Alida Becker, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced a surprise move to close 6 federal prison camps and permanently close FCI Dublin.
—Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
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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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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
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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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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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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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Ohtani has made his pitching debut for the Dodgers this season, but could he be better served in the bullpen down the stretch, rather than in the rotation?—
Hunter Mulholland,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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During the session, someone from the A’s placed a towel over the bullpen camera — presumably so that the Yankees couldn’t use it to watch Severino work.—
Brendan Kuty,
New York Times,
29 June 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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