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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
By Massimo Calabresi/Dachau February 22, 2025 1:00 AM EST
Vice President J.D. Vance arrived at the Dachau concentration camp under low, gray clouds.
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Massimo Calabresi/dachau, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
Elisabeth was deported to a concentration camp in 1942 and murdered.
—Catherine Hickley, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
My mother was a child survivor of imprisonment at the hands of the federal government in a World War II U.S. concentration camp.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
Per People, Prince William had been scheduled to attend the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; however, Princess Catherine was a late and unexpected addition to the guest list.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2025
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Massimo Calabresi/dachau, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
Elisabeth was deported to a concentration camp in 1942 and murdered.
—Catherine Hickley, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
My mother was a child survivor of imprisonment at the hands of the federal government in a World War II U.S. concentration camp.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
Per People, Prince William had been scheduled to attend the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; however, Princess Catherine was a late and unexpected addition to the guest list.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
Noun
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Moving migrants in immigration detention awaiting deportation to an offshore prison camp raises novel legal questions.—
Francesca Paris,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
29 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
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un maintains an iron grip through the threat and reality of labor camps and murder along with a fanatical propaganda personality cult.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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An additional million had been thrown into arbitrary detention or packed off to penal colonies and labor camps.—
Gary J. Bass,
Foreign Affairs,
14 June 2018
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Despite allowing the loudest — and longest — home run in camp, Verlander impressed during his live bullpen session, inducing whiffs with both his fastball and breaking balls.—
Justice delos Santos,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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Sasaki did admit to being a little nervous throwing his first bullpen session earlier in camp.—
Bill Plunkett,
Orange County Register,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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