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a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions
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Recent Examples of concentration camp
Portnoy had initially offered to send the culprits to Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp run by the Nazis in Poland during World War II, to learn about the Holocaust against the Jews.
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025
Tuesday was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's Dachau concentration camp.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 30 Apr. 2025
The house where the Jewish teenager penned her famous diary has been reconstructed for visitors to experience the five rooms the Frank family and others lived in before they were discovered in 1944 and sent to concentration camps.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
China has crushed Hong Kong’s freedoms, imposed martial law in Tibet, built concentration camps in Xinjiang, and militarized the South China Sea with artificial island fortresses and swarms of maritime militias.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2025
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Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 5 May 2025
Tuesday was the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany's Dachau concentration camp.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 30 Apr. 2025
The house where the Jewish teenager penned her famous diary has been reconstructed for visitors to experience the five rooms the Frank family and others lived in before they were discovered in 1944 and sent to concentration camps.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2025
China has crushed Hong Kong’s freedoms, imposed martial law in Tibet, built concentration camps in Xinjiang, and militarized the South China Sea with artificial island fortresses and swarms of maritime militias.
—Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
Noun
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And although Peter fought for the rebel cause and now languishes in a Union prison camp, that principled act has led others to suspect his wife of less than ironclad loyalty.—
Alida Becker,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced a surprise move to close 6 federal prison camps and permanently close FCI Dublin.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
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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
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Eventually, they were sent to a work camp in the wilds of Siberia where Yetta shared a room with a horse and subsisted on frozen food.—
Malina Saval,
HollywoodReporter,
14 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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Perhaps Nasser would not have sent Brothers to prison, labor camps, and the gallows.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Aug. 2018
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The Philadelphia Phillies were already short in the bullpen after Jordan Romano struggled at the start of the season.—
Drew VonScio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
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The Bombers’ bullpen, meanwhile, ranked sixth in ERA (3.29), fifth in fWAR (2.4) and third in K% (26.6).—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
26 May 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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