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Recent Examples of labor camp
Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
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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
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.
—Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
So, in 2020, you're sentenced to 16 years in a Russian labor camp.
—CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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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
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.
—Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
So, in 2020, you're sentenced to 16 years in a Russian labor camp.
—CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for labor 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
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That comes from my grandfather, who survived a concentration camp.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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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
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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
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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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In that case, a man incarcerated in a local jail filed a complaint with CLERB alleging that deputies damaged his personal property and mishandled legal documents during a cell search.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2025
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In a previous life, the tournament would have been the high point of his professional career, but languishing in a Qatari jail, Ibhais could not bear witnessing the four-week football extravaganza playing out in the Gulf nation.—
Samindra Kunti,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20camp. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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