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Recent Examples of work camp
He was sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
Noun
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Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, months before the end of the war.—
Jill Lawless,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Schloss family was betrayed and sent to concentration camps in 1944.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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The following March, Navarro—at the age of seventy-four—began a four-month sentence in a senior dorm at a federal prison camp in Miami.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Just a week later, Maxwell was moved to a more permissive prison camp in Texas.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
21 Dec. 2025
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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