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Recent Examples of sweatshop
Make basic tees cool again by paying his employees (most of whom were immigrants) double the minimum wage and avoiding outsourcing manufacturing to sweatshops.
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Emily Blackwood, People.com, 3 July 2025
Yet, its dialogue, which ranges from the laughably stereotypical to the downright absurd in the context of a sweatshop, stands out as the most unforgivable affront.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
An entire modern artistic genre — documentary photography — was weaned on the growing social effort to rein in the abusive practice of forcing children to toil in sweatshops and on farms in the wake of the Gilded Age.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
Initially, many of these factories functioned as little more than exploitative sweatshops in which desperate young women sewed clothes for as little as five cents an hour (roughly $1 in 2025 dollars).
— Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
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Emily Blackwood, People.com, 3 July 2025
Yet, its dialogue, which ranges from the laughably stereotypical to the downright absurd in the context of a sweatshop, stands out as the most unforgivable affront.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
An entire modern artistic genre — documentary photography — was weaned on the growing social effort to rein in the abusive practice of forcing children to toil in sweatshops and on farms in the wake of the Gilded Age.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2025
Initially, many of these factories functioned as little more than exploitative sweatshops in which desperate young women sewed clothes for as little as five cents an hour (roughly $1 in 2025 dollars).
— Made By History, Time, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweatshop
Noun
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To produce its weapons, Anduril is planning to open a sprawling factory near Columbus, Ohio.—
Dexter Filkins,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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That's because the automakers are paying for tariffs and passing it on to dealers, who now pay more to buy cars from the factory.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
Freep.com,
14 July 2025
Noun
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Squirrels love to yank new plants out of the ground.—
Paul Cappiello,
The Courier-Journal,
11 July 2025
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Eventually, hard candies were made from the plant and carried in many apothecaries and general stores.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
11 July 2025
Noun
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There are still multiple avenues to improving the team, but the James situation could have them on hold. Expect to continue hearing the Lakers in the NBA rumor mill.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 July 2025
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Kohlmeyer and his team seem to never stop striving for excellence in their products — during Monday’s visit to the mill, Kohlmeyer was in South America searching for organic sources of sesame seeds for oil.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
11 July 2025
Noun
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Too many ideation sessions and team workshops get dragged down by late attendees who show up unclear on the goals of the meeting or without prior work completed.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Space is limited, and the public is encouraged to register before the workshop.—
Abby Hamblin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 July 2025
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“Sweatshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweatshop. Accessed 23 Jul. 2025.
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