sweatshop

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Recent Examples of sweatshop The film’s titular character is a gifted 9-year-old who works at a sweatshop with her older sister, Palak, toiling for long hours with only one 15-minute break per shift. Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Feb. 2025 After an episode is put to bed at 1 a.m. on a Sunday, the cast and staff have one meager day to recuperate before coming to the office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza to do it all over again at a pace that would make a sweatshop owner wince. Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025 The movie, inspired by true events, follows a young boy from Mexico who is trafficked across the border and sold to a sweatshop in downtown Los Angeles. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2024 Like other on- and offline fast-fashion retailers, Boohoo has been trying to move on from a series of sweatshop scandals. Samantha Conti, WWD, 18 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sweatshop
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Noun
  • For example, China is the world's largest plastics manufacturer but some of its factories depend on ethane -- a feedstock mainly imported from the U.S. CHINA China is in the midst of a public holiday, with government offices and markets closed.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2025
  • But in some good news for consumers, Cook told CNBC that Apple is already sourcing over half of US iPhones from factories in India, a country that’s been spared from most of Trump’s reciprocal tariffs.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Low end reflects tariffs reverting to country specific levels resulting in plant closures.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 30 Apr. 2025
  • Rural coal plants power most facilities, clashing with green goals.
    Moin Roberts-Islam, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Across fifteen of the world’s largest economies, from the steel mills of India to the data centres of the United States, business leaders are backing the energy transition.
    María Mendiluce, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Under a new owner, the steel mill closed permanently in 2012.
    Timothy B. Wheeler, Baltimore Sun, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For the third consecutive year, the workshop maintained its partnership with the Morelia Film Festival, hosting a Mexican filmmaker among the participants.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Apr. 2025
  • During the April 16 workshop, Kneuvean, the CFO that joined in 2024, told commissioners that both the city and the county used reserve dollars to pay for capital projects during eight of the past 10 budget years.
    Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 22 Apr. 2025

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“Sweatshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweatshop. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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