work camp

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Recent Examples of work camp In the series, the submarine is a secret project of the company’s that Nemo, who was a prisoner in a work camp for three years, helped design. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 June 2025 In an earlier interview, Leili repeatedly denied guarding prisoners at Mauthausen, one of a cluster of work camps in Austria, notorious for a stone quarry where slave laborers spent 11-hour days hauling slabs of granite up a steep rock staircase. Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 20 May 2025 Eventually, they were sent to a work camp in the wilds of Siberia where Yetta shared a room with a horse and subsisted on frozen food. Malina Saval, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025 Communal meals were served in the multi-ethnic work camps as plantation workers needed nutritious, hearty meals portioned to keep them going all day long. Ben Davidson, Mercury News, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for work camp
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Noun
  • To what degree was infamous filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl a Nazi collaborator who knew about Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps?
    Addie Morfoot, Variety, 22 Sep. 2025
  • When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
    Ed Simon September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The novel was inspired by Steinbeck’s journalism work, particularly for The San Francisco News, which had commissioned him to cover migrant labor camps in the Salinas valley.
    Paul Slovak September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Every day, the MLA team crisscrosses west Michigan in search of labor camps.
    David Rodriguez Muñoz, Freep.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Todd Chrisley was being released from a minimum-security federal prison camp in Pensacola, FL, Julie Chrisley was being released from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, KY, and the rest of the family lives near Nashville.
    Peter White, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Soon after giving the interviews in late July, she was transferred to a cushier, minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025

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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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