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Recent Examples of sweatshopHere are the anti-suicide nets at Foxconn’s Chinese sweatshops, the teeny-tiny Apple logos engraved on the smallest iPhone parts to guard against unauthorized repair.—Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025 Conducting business with the State Department was now on the same level as purchasing soft pretzels and sweatshop clothing, and this calmed Daria.—Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025 The sweatshop videos had earlier circulated on Chinese social media platforms, and were amplified by Chinese and Russian state media.—Emily Baker-White, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 Last year, the luxury brands Armani and Dior were caught using sweatshops to make handbags in Italy.—Elizabeth Cline, The Atlantic, 8 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for sweatshop
The closing of textile mills, the loss of manufacturing jobs — particularly from an Oshkosh B’Gosh factory in nearby Clay County that moved to Mexico in the mid-Nineties — induced a steady contraction of the local economy.
The news comes in the wake of Lionsgate inking a deal with Millennium Films to acquire rights to develop and produce all derivative works of The Expendables franchise, and global distribution rights to John Rambo.
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At Inhotim there are five miles of trails, 24 galleries, and 29 site-specific works scattered around a 350-acre botanical garden.
After participating in the Golden Horse FPP Series market and the Serial Bridges Asia workshop, the team is now pitching at TCCF with an eye toward production in 2026.
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