work camp

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Recent Examples of work camp He was sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp. Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025 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 There was never a legitimate concern that the show was going to conclude with the existential crisis of Seth Rogen, Stephen Graham, Noah Wyle and John Oliver — winners of an astonishing percentage of the night’s trophies — sending small children to a work camp to repay their debt to Bargatze. Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for work camp
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Noun
  • What To Know According to the Anti-Deformation League (ADL), the Totenkopf was adopted by the SS and was particularly associated with the SS-Totenkopfverbande, which was responsible for guarding concentration camps.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Simmons immediately recalled his mother’s story in the Dachau concentration camp, noting that the past is anything but the past and that educational resources are vital toward breaking the cycle of antisemitic language and tropes.
    Brandon Shaw, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some paid dearly for their dissent by losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Ghislaine Maxwell, Robert Maxwell's daughter, is currently in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and is serving time at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Maxwell was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after being interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.

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