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Washington — In December 2022, Paul Whelan was sitting in a factory at a Russian labor camp in Mordovia, more than seven hours east of Moscow, adding buttons and buttonholes to winter coats.
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Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
These problems, Herman noted, occurred when one person was under the control of another, such as in the context of prisons or labor camps or in certain families.
—Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
Eventually, he was sentenced to 16 years in a labor camp.
—Diamy Wang, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
Montañez was the son of a Mexican immigrant and grew up in a migrant labor camp.
—CNN, 26 July 2024
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Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
These problems, Herman noted, occurred when one person was under the control of another, such as in the context of prisons or labor camps or in certain families.
—Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
Eventually, he was sentenced to 16 years in a labor camp.
—Diamy Wang, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
Montañez was the son of a Mexican immigrant and grew up in a migrant labor camp.
—CNN, 26 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for labor 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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Reinhold Kulle was an SS member in the elite Death’s Head division and a guard at Gross-Rosen concentration camp.Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 11 Sep. 2024
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Watch on Max The Zone of Interest In 1943, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) was the commandant of Auschwitz who spent his days playing god with the lives of the concentration camp’s innocent prisoners.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 29 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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Williams has been a staple in the Milwaukee bullpen for the last few years, but he's been notorious for collapsing in the postseason.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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This was more exciting that any call to the bullpen.Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 1 Nov. 2024
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Tekashi is expected to plead guilty on November 12 to violating supervised release and agree to serve a one-month jail sentence, and another year of supervision, according to the Associated Press.Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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The charges carry a maximum sentence of up to four years in jail, but Merchan can also hand down a sentence that involves a variety of alternatives to incarceration, including probation.Patrick Maguire, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20camp. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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