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sweatshop

noun

Definition of sweatshop

as in factory

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Recent Examples of sweatshop Meanwhile, Miranda has gone viral too, in the bad way, for publishing a piece about a fashion brand since revealed to use sweatshop labor. — Katie Walsh, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 2026 At the same time, Priestly’s magazine gets embroiled in a sweatshop scandal that does a number on their PR. — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2026 And a scandal that sees Runway fooled by (LOL) a fast fashion brand with sweatshop ties as tarnished the mag’s sterling reputation. — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2026 After the magazine unwittingly publishes a laudatory profile of a label soon after revealed to be a sweatshop, Runway chair Irv Ravitz (Tibor Feldman), in PR crisis mode, hires Andrea to run the features department. — Jake Coyle, Twin Cities, 29 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sweatshop

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Workers have faced this bargain before More than a century ago, factory managers faced a similar problem.

— Christoph Trattner, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026
Meuser’s seat is considered safe, but other races in the state are up for grabs, including in the 7th and 8th districts, which are near the Post and Trivium factories.

— Bernard Condon, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of factory

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Workers are organizing at manufacturing plants, in newsrooms, in technology, in hospitals, on college campuses, and construction sites.

— Liz Shuler, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
The precise air quality impact is hard to gauge since regulators could decide to simply stretch out rules that limit some natural gas plants to 30 hours of operation per year, as opposed to canceling the restraints altogether.

— John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

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Keynesianism gets a brain freeze John Maynard Keynes is basically the father of macroeconomics, the study of how the entire economy works, including what the government can do to fight recessions, boost employment, and control inflation.

— Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
Several works confront the digital systems shaping contemporary life, subverting algorithms and finding room for human error and agency.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of works

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The Emerging Filmmakers Program brings middle and high school students into screenings, discussions and workshops.

— Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 Oct. 2026
Working with small workshops in India, the four-year-old brand operates on a see now, buy now basis, and has a corner at Le Bon Marché as well as its own Right Bank boutique.

— Alex Wynne, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026

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