sweatshop

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Recent Examples of sweatshop Drakeford impresses the importance of noticing these connections from innovative design creations to the brutality of sweatshops. Cierra Black, Essence, 9 July 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 Perhaps Goodman could withstand his sweatshop duties as a catcher while still producing the power its languid offense so desperately needs. Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 6 June 2025 Nike has prided itself on the story of its reinvention since the 1990s sweatshop scandal. Rob Davis, ProPublica, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sweatshop
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Noun
  • The company revealed the spacecraft during an event at its factory.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2025
  • The West Midlands, especially its largest city of Birmingham, was England’s manufacturing heartland for decades before going into a sharp decline in the latter half of the 20th century when factories began to shut down.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The nuclear power plant a few miles up the road, which has sat lifeless for over a decade.
    Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Space the plants around 24 inches apart for adequate airflow between them after foliage appears in the spring.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • About a block over, discover Vintage 1889 in a converted mill building.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Below, executives from 10 of the exhibiting denim mills from around the globe share the highlights from their upcoming Spring/Summer 2027 collections that will be on view at the show.
    Carved, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) has named multidisciplinary artist Nilbar Güreş, known for her humorous, poetic, yet critical works commenting on social topics, as Turkey’s representative to the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, set to take place May 9–November 22, 2026.
    News Desk, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Players will learn tactics for every map and game mode included in the Beta, explore how in-game progression works and discover which rewards will carry over to the full launch.
    Andrew McGowan, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On the sidelines, a pop-up program will feature workshops ranging from Emirati comics to a photography and documentation tour, while panels and keynote sessions will delve into the role of cinema in shaping youth culture.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Historians believe the castle featured living quarters and fortifications, plus courtyards, kitchens, houses and workshops.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025

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“Sweatshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweatshop. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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