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Recent Examples of prison camp
At that time, the race course had been turned into a Confederate prison camp for Union soldiers.
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Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Many other Soviet citizens were sent to the gulag, a grim network of prison camps, spread across the world’s largest country.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
They were sent to the new communist government’s re-education prison camps and forced to do hard labor.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 May 2025
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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Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Many other Soviet citizens were sent to the gulag, a grim network of prison camps, spread across the world’s largest country.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
They were sent to the new communist government’s re-education prison camps and forced to do hard labor.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 May 2025
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
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So now our unelected state attorney general has proposed a concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades with a convenient airstrip for hustling people out of the country without due process.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
26 June 2025
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Millions of people have visited Europe’s concentration camps like Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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As a result, practitioners of Falun Gong have faced persecution in China, with thousands imprisoned or sent to labor camps, according to a Human Rights Watch report.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
13 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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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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Following Shelia's arrest, she was held in jail without bail, per MetroNews.—
Alex Gurley,
People.com,
6 July 2025
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On June 23, 2012, the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, convicted Chávez of the offense of driving under the influence of alcohol and sentenced him to 13 days in jail and 36 months’ probation.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
5 July 2025
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That unearned score, coupled with stellar pitching out of the bullpen, was enough to win it for the A’s on Saturday.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
13 July 2025
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During his time the Nationals have never had a very good bullpen — even the 2019 championship team had one of the worst bullpens in the majors with closer Sean Doolittle posting 4.05 ERA — and this year the Nationals’ bullpen ERA of 5.79 ranks last in the majors.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
12 July 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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