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Recent Examples of work camp
And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.
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Patrick Wilson, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
Nine years later, Lowell, which consists of three facilities — the main unit, the annex and a work camp — spends 46 percent less per inmate on healthcare and 36 percent less on education.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.
—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
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Patrick Wilson, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
Nine years later, Lowell, which consists of three facilities — the main unit, the annex and a work camp — spends 46 percent less per inmate on healthcare and 36 percent less on education.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
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The film will bring to life the magical world that Fredy Hirsch created for Jewish children, first in Prague under the Nuremberg Laws, and later as a prisoner in the concentration camps of Terezin and Auschwitz.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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At the royal event on Tuesday, May 20, the Princess of Wales shared a warm embrace with Steven Frank, a man originally from Amsterdam who lived through multiple concentration camps as a child.—
Jillian Frankel,
People.com,
20 May 2025
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Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
27 May 2025
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Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work at labor camps in rural areas.—
Ray Cavanaugh,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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The mass arrests, at first of mostly non-Jewish Poles, led the Nazis to construct new prison camps or refurbish existing structures, like the former military barracks in Oswiecim, Poland, which opened as the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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The weekend games paid tribute to Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps when they were forced to relocate during WWII.—
Emilie Ikeda,
NBC News,
29 Oct. 2024
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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