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Recent Examples of work camp
Saw tells his followers he was forced into slave labor at an Imperial work camp on his home planet Onderon.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.
—Patrick Wilson, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
Nine years later, Lowell, which consists of three facilities — the main unit, the annex and a work camp — spends 46 percent less per inmate on healthcare and 36 percent less on education.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.
—Patrick Wilson, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
Nine years later, Lowell, which consists of three facilities — the main unit, the annex and a work camp — spends 46 percent less per inmate on healthcare and 36 percent less on education.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for work camp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
Noun
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Sounds like families being separated to go to concentration camps.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2025
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He was hired as a war crimes investigator and visited concentration camps during the World War II liberation to document Nazi crimes.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
10 June 2025
Noun
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Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
27 May 2025
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Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work at labor camps in rural areas.—
Ray Cavanaugh,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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They were sent to the new communist government’s re-education prison camps and forced to do hard labor.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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The mass arrests, at first of mostly non-Jewish Poles, led the Nazis to construct new prison camps or refurbish existing structures, like the former military barracks in Oswiecim, Poland, which opened as the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.
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