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Recent Examples of work camp
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.
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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
He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
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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
He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
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These camps remind many Americans of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany during World War II.—
Tom Zirpoli,
Baltimore Sun,
22 Apr. 2025
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My wife, who was born in Hamburg, remembers being taken to the former Neuengamme concentration camp with her school as a teenager.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 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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Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
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Two cousins are sent to prison camps, while two remain free.—
Michael Schaub,
Oc Register,
2 Apr. 2025
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His award-winning memoir, A Sense of Duty: Our Journey from Vietnam to America (2005, Penguin Random House), detailed his military journey, including reuniting with his father who spent twelve years in prison camps in postwar Vietnam.—
Quang X. Pham,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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