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Recent Examples of work camp
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.
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Ben Davidson, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
Saw tells his followers he was forced into slave labor at an Imperial work camp on his home planet Onderon.
—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
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Ben Davidson, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
Saw tells his followers he was forced into slave labor at an Imperial work camp on his home planet Onderon.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
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As the troops arrived Tuesday, D.C. residents who spoke to the Washington Examiner shared a variety of reactions ranging from support for the president’s actions to horror at the prospect of being sent to a concentration camp.—
Haisten Willis,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Aug. 2025
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Multiple attendees referred to the new Florida immigrant detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz as a concentration camp.—
Lawrence Andrea,
jsonline.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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Who was released from Russian custody in the swap? More than a dozen people were released from Russian prisons and labor camps, several of them Russian pro-democracy and human rights activists or prominent opposition figures of Russian president Vladimir Putin.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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After that interview, Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Maxwell was convicted and is serving a 20-year prison sentence at an all-female federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she was recently moved from a minimum security prison in Tallahassee, Florida.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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