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Recent Examples of work camp
Work Ethic Camp, a minimum security prison work camp in McCook, Nebraska, will be used as the site of the immigration detention center.
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Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
What's Next Corrections Director Rob Jeffreys said the 186 inmates now at the McCook work camp will be moved to other state prisons within 45 to 60 days.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
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
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Antonio Pequeño Iv, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
What's Next Corrections Director Rob Jeffreys said the 186 inmates now at the McCook work camp will be moved to other state prisons within 45 to 60 days.
—Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
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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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People were forced into labor camps in the countryside; schools and temples were turned into prisons; and paddy fields were used as execution sites.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
14 Dec. 2025
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Born in the then-Austro-Hungarian Empire, the 85-year-old said his family was put in a labor camp, subject to starvation.—
Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
5 Dec. 2025
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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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