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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
That comes from my grandfather, who survived a concentration camp.
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Ben Croll, Variety, 19 May 2025
Ravensbrück, located 50 miles north of Berlin, was a concentration camp built for women, where as many as 40,000 perished before the war’s end.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Andrew Stern was born in 1944 in a basement in the Jewish Ghetto in Budapest, Hungary; his father survived multiple concentration camps.
—Malina Saval, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
The mass arrests, at first of mostly non-Jewish Poles, led the Nazis to construct new prison camps or refurbish existing structures, like the former military barracks in Oswiecim, Poland, which opened as the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940.
—Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
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Ben Croll, Variety, 19 May 2025
Ravensbrück, located 50 miles north of Berlin, was a concentration camp built for women, where as many as 40,000 perished before the war’s end.
—Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2025
Andrew Stern was born in 1944 in a basement in the Jewish Ghetto in Budapest, Hungary; his father survived multiple concentration camps.
—Malina Saval, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025
The mass arrests, at first of mostly non-Jewish Poles, led the Nazis to construct new prison camps or refurbish existing structures, like the former military barracks in Oswiecim, Poland, which opened as the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940.
—Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
Noun
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And although Peter fought for the rebel cause and now languishes in a Union prison camp, that principled act has led others to suspect his wife of less than ironclad loyalty.—
Alida Becker,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced a surprise move to close 6 federal prison camps and permanently close FCI Dublin.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
Noun
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In an earlier interview, Leili repeatedly denied guarding prisoners at Mauthausen, one of a cluster of work camps in Austria, notorious for a stone quarry where slave laborers spent 11-hour days hauling slabs of granite up a steep rock staircase.—
Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Eventually, they were sent to a work camp in the wilds of Siberia where Yetta shared a room with a horse and subsisted on frozen food.—
Malina Saval,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2025
Noun
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Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work at labor camps in rural areas.—
Ray Cavanaugh,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps Nasser would not have sent Brothers to prison, labor camps, and the gallows.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Aug. 2018
Noun
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The Philadelphia Phillies were already short in the bullpen after Jordan Romano struggled at the start of the season.—
Drew VonScio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 May 2025
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The Bombers’ bullpen, meanwhile, ranked sixth in ERA (3.29), fifth in fWAR (2.4) and third in K% (26.6).—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
26 May 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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