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Recent Examples of work camp
Saw tells his followers he was forced into slave labor at an Imperial work camp on his home planet Onderon.
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.
—Patrick Wilson, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
Nine years later, Lowell, which consists of three facilities — the main unit, the annex and a work camp — spends 46 percent less per inmate on healthcare and 36 percent less on education.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
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Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.
—Patrick Wilson, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
Nine years later, Lowell, which consists of three facilities — the main unit, the annex and a work camp — spends 46 percent less per inmate on healthcare and 36 percent less on education.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.
—Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for work camp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
Noun
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So now our unelected state attorney general has proposed a concentration camp in the middle of the Everglades with a convenient airstrip for hustling people out of the country without due process.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
26 June 2025
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Millions of people have visited Europe’s concentration camps like Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
Noun
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As a result, practitioners of Falun Gong have faced persecution in China, with thousands imprisoned or sent to labor camps, according to a Human Rights Watch report.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
13 May 2025
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They’re housed in crowded labor camps and their passports are held by their employers, rendering them captive.—
Sonali Kolhatkar,
Sun Sentinel,
29 June 2025
Noun
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In late September, Burke, 81, had checked himself into the low-security federal prison camp at Thomson, Illinois, to start a two-year sentence on his corruption case.—
Madeline Buckley,
Chicago Tribune,
8 July 2025
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Contraband phones are easy to get into prison camps.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
21 May 2025
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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