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Recent Examples of work camp
Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.
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Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
Selly’s father escaped from a work camp and returned to Budapest.
—Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
Apes together are strong enough to break out of an abusive medical-testing laboratory, establish a new community of their own in the California woods, fend off humans who want to siphon their resources, and fight back against a rogue military unit that has trapped apes in work camps.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
Selly’s father escaped from a work camp and returned to Budapest.
—Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
Apes together are strong enough to break out of an abusive medical-testing laboratory, establish a new community of their own in the California woods, fend off humans who want to siphon their resources, and fight back against a rogue military unit that has trapped apes in work camps.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
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New York Supreme Court Judge Althea Drysdale on April 23 ordered the Art Institute of Chicago to return a drawing by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele to the heirs of its onetime owner, who died in a concentration camp in 1941.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
25 Apr. 2025
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Somehow Petr had managed to bring his birthday gift to the station unnoticed among the family’s suitcases, and 87 years later concentration camp survivor Gidon Lev still feels the sting of being forced to leave it behind.—
Dina Kraft,
Christian Science Monitor,
24 Apr. 2025
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My father died under the Khmer Rouge, succumbing to dysentery and malnutrition after being forced to work in a labor camp.—
Sophal Ear,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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The novelist Daniel Kehlmann became interested in film as a child, the son of a father who survived a Nazi labor camp and went on to direct movies and theater.—
David Segal,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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There are Earthquakes and opera singers and prison camps for human experimentation.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Advertisement Though he had been banned from baseball since 1989, served five months in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion, was a known philanderer and a largely unsuccessful gambler, Rose remained one of the most beloved former athletes in the nation.—
Mike Kupper,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Sep. 2024
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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