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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
The camp was also used to train members of the SS, the paramilitary organization of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich that ran other concentration camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka in Poland.
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Hannah Peart, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024
This is particularly the case with visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland, which stands on the former site of the World War II concentration camp, and which has become a dark tourism destination.
—Jennifer Stavros, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
That Eisenberg is savvy enough to abruptly end a sequence at the Majdanek concentration camp on a sudden gasp, then cut to an aftermath of quiet sobbing, is anything but expected.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024
But the combination of executive orders, laws and military commands were indiscriminate and their brunt fell upon innocent Japanese Americans, who were forced into concentration camps without regard for their loyalty, only their ancestry.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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Hannah Peart, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2024
This is particularly the case with visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, Poland, which stands on the former site of the World War II concentration camp, and which has become a dark tourism destination.
—Jennifer Stavros, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
That Eisenberg is savvy enough to abruptly end a sequence at the Majdanek concentration camp on a sudden gasp, then cut to an aftermath of quiet sobbing, is anything but expected.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024
But the combination of executive orders, laws and military commands were indiscriminate and their brunt fell upon innocent Japanese Americans, who were forced into concentration camps without regard for their loyalty, only their ancestry.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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In December 2024, the BOP announced the closure of seven prisons—including six male prison camps—as a cost-saving measure to consolidate operations.Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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The Closure The Bureau of Prisons announced Thursday plans to close the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, and deactivate minimum-security prison camps in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
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Selly’s father escaped from a work camp and returned to Budapest.Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
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On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
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Repression and surveillance are now everywhere, although few expect a return to the labor camps and mass executions of the 1950s and 1960s.Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
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The Chicago Cubs need a closer to finalize their bullpen for 2025.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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In September, the Yankees removed Stroman from their rotation and began preparing him for a possible bullpen role for when the playoffs started.Brendan Kuty, The Athletic, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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