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Recent Examples of work camp
He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
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Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
Whelan, a former Marine who lived in Novi, was accused of espionage and convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
After an attempt to find a new sanctuary goes awry, Caesar and the apes find themselves in a brutal work camp run by the spine-chillingly creepy Colonel (Woody Harrelson).
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 10 May 2024
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Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
Whelan, a former Marine who lived in Novi, was accused of espionage and convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
After an attempt to find a new sanctuary goes awry, Caesar and the apes find themselves in a brutal work camp run by the spine-chillingly creepy Colonel (Woody Harrelson).
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 10 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
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It was described in the script as representing the barracks of the concentration camps where Tóth and his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) were imprisoned.Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 8 Jan. 2025
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The ambiguities that result are fascinating and provocative, though Corbet never quite thinks them through: If László is creating, in effect, architectural poetry after Auschwitz, does this poetry redeem the cruelty and brutality of the concentration camps or reproduce it?Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
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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 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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In addition to closing FCI Dublin, the Bureau of Prisons is shuttering its minimum-security prison camps in Pensacola, Fla.; Duluth, Minn.; and Morgantown, W.Va.Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 17 Jan. 2025.
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