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Recent Examples of prison camp
Moving migrants in immigration detention awaiting deportation to an offshore prison camp raises novel legal questions.
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Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Numerous Soviet enterprises, operating under dozens of ministries, used POWs contracted out by prison camp officials.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
According to prison camp and other historical records, Hansen died June 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 407.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
The Russian dissident died under mysterious circumstances in a prison camp above the Arctic Circle last February, alone, still fighting.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
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Francesca Paris, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Numerous Soviet enterprises, operating under dozens of ministries, used POWs contracted out by prison camp officials.
—Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
According to prison camp and other historical records, Hansen died June 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 407.
—Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 20 Dec. 2024
The Russian dissident died under mysterious circumstances in a prison camp above the Arctic Circle last February, alone, still fighting.
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
Noun
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He was driven to a nearby concentration camp and held overnight.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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Photo: Courtesy of Hannah Jackson Eighty years ago today, on April 11, 1945, Morris was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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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Brünnlitz was a German labor camp, and as Spielberg showed in his film, a list was created with names of those who would be relocated there.—
Danuta Hamlin,
Fox News,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.—
Patrick Wilson,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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However, on March 27, a paperwork error allowed Guzman to walk out of the Clayton County jail a free man.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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In the photo, Sada is dressed in an orange jail uniform while his expression consists of wide eyes and a stiff grin.—
Regina Cho,
VIBE.com,
9 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Royals reliever John Schreiber came in from the bullpen.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
19 Apr. 2025
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A number of qualities have led to the success of the bullpen, with velocity and pitch shapes being two of them.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.
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