work camp

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Recent Examples of work camp 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 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 He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp. 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 See All Example Sentences for work camp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
Noun
  • He was driven to a nearby concentration camp and held overnight.
    John Blake, CNN Money, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Photo: Courtesy of Hannah Jackson Eighty years ago today, on April 11, 1945, Morris was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Brünnlitz was a German labor camp, and as Spielberg showed in his film, a list was created with names of those who would be relocated there.
    Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Her mother was born in a Siberian prison camp.
    Lucas Y. Tomlinson Fox News, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Holmes, 41, is incarcerated at a federal minimum-security prison camp outside Houston.
    Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2025

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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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