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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
Abend says many attendees have been people who visited concentration camps or have connections to people who were prisoners in those camps.
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Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
On the hills above Goethe’s Weimer sits the Buchenwald concentration camp; in Erfurt, Topf & Sons manufactured ovens and gas-chamber-ventilation systems for the death camps.
—Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
However, the prosecution quickly puts paid to Quisling’s claim via the chilling testimony of Norwegian Jewish concentration camp survivor, Dr. Leo Eitinger (Benjamin L. Røsler).
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
Guy Pearce supports as the wealthy, perhaps nefarious patron who hires him to construct a library that all too closely resembles the concentration camp Tóth survived.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2024
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Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
On the hills above Goethe’s Weimer sits the Buchenwald concentration camp; in Erfurt, Topf & Sons manufactured ovens and gas-chamber-ventilation systems for the death camps.
—Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
However, the prosecution quickly puts paid to Quisling’s claim via the chilling testimony of Norwegian Jewish concentration camp survivor, Dr. Leo Eitinger (Benjamin L. Røsler).
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
Guy Pearce supports as the wealthy, perhaps nefarious patron who hires him to construct a library that all too closely resembles the concentration camp Tóth survived.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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Scarborough died July 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 215, according to prison camp and other historical records.Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
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Navalny died suddenly in a prison camp in the Russian Arctic in February.Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Apes together are strong enough to break out of an abusive medical-testing laboratory, establish a new community of their own in the California woods, fend off humans who want to siphon their resources, and fight back against a rogue military unit that has trapped apes in work camps.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
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Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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In July 1942, the Nazis ordered Anne’s older sister, Margot, to return to Germany and report to a labor camp.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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At the labor camp, guards woke him up every two hours every night for four years.Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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Scott would fortify the backend of New York's bullpen.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Since removing Flaherty in the second, Roberts had managed his bullpen ruthlessly.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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