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sweatshop

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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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Half a century later, Andy Warhol’s factory flipped this theory on its head.

— Amy O’Brien, Vogue, 21 July 2026
Defensive backs coach Dino Vasso deserves a significant mention here, too — the Texans have become a talent factory at every position in their secondary under Vasso, who could get even more coordinator interest this spring.

— Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 21 July 2026

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The fire has also forced evacuations at Spokane’s veterans’ hospital, water reclamation facility and waste-to-energy plant, city officials said.

— Martin Goillandeau, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
For brands, understanding this complexity is paramount; success requires authentic engagement, respecting the plant's deep legacy, and building genuine community trust.

— Peter Su, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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The stench, a byproduct of papermaking, eased years ago with the installation of air-scrubbing equipment and went away completely in September when International Paper closed the mill after 90 years of operation.

— Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
Waters, for example, went from sharecropping and driving a tractor on a plantation near Clarksdale to working in a paper mill and driving a truck in Chicago.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026

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Below is an example of how the scoring works, based on the performances of the Marist teams during the 2025-26 school year.

— Chip Saye, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
One of Nebel’s major works was still there — The Wrestlers, a huge plaster work of two sinewy men locked in combat, which had been his thesis as a student.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 30 July 2026

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