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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
Her father, Charles M. Gavin III, served with the 84th Infantry Division during World War II and helped liberate two concentration camps.
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Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 24 May 2025
With that said, there is one cinematic Holocaust project that comes closest to depicting the objectively depraved existence of life in a concentration camp, 2015’s Son of Saul, which premiered at Cannes 10 years ago this week.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
The Nazis seized the factory, converting it into a munitions plant and later a branch of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
The sports media personality 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.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
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Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 24 May 2025
With that said, there is one cinematic Holocaust project that comes closest to depicting the objectively depraved existence of life in a concentration camp, 2015’s Son of Saul, which premiered at Cannes 10 years ago this week.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
The Nazis seized the factory, converting it into a munitions plant and later a branch of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
The sports media personality 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.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
Noun
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Rowland served 10 months in a federal prison camp after pleading guilty in 2004 to one count of conspiracy to steal honest services.—
Staff And Wire Reports,
Boston Herald,
29 May 2025
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At that time, the race course had been turned into a Confederate prison camp for Union soldiers.—
Doug Melville,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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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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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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They’re housed in crowded labor camps and their passports are held by their employers, rendering them captive.—
Sonali Kolhatkar,
Sun Sentinel,
29 June 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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Ohtani has made his pitching debut for the Dodgers this season, but could he be better served in the bullpen down the stretch, rather than in the rotation?—
Hunter Mulholland,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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The Dodgers threw a bullpen game in the series finale.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
29 June 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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