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Recent Examples of work camp
He was sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
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Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
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
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
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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Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 1 Aug. 2025
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
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
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The show also sees Watkins expose Gein to disturbing material, such as photos from concentration camps and books about notorious Nazi war criminal Ilse Koch (played by Vicky Krieps), who, as Gein would go on to do, allegedly collected human skin and body parts.—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Oct. 2025
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The wife of the commander at one of Germany’s largest Nazi concentration camps allegedly had a desire to own objects made of human skin, per The Conversation.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
7 Oct. 2025
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The novel was inspired by Steinbeck’s journalism work, particularly for The San Francisco News, which had commissioned him to cover migrant labor camps in the Salinas valley.—
Paul Slovak
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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Every day, the MLA team crisscrosses west Michigan in search of labor camps.—
David Rodriguez Muñoz,
Freep.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Maxwell was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after being interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Takei and his family were eventually moved to a prison camp in Arkansas.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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