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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
By Massimo Calabresi/Dachau February 22, 2025 1:00 AM EST
Vice President J.D. Vance arrived at the Dachau concentration camp under low, gray clouds.
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Massimo Calabresi/dachau, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
Elisabeth was deported to a concentration camp in 1942 and murdered.
—Catherine Hickley, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
My mother was a child survivor of imprisonment at the hands of the federal government in a World War II U.S. concentration camp.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
Per People, Prince William had been scheduled to attend the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; however, Princess Catherine was a late and unexpected addition to the guest list.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2025
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Massimo Calabresi/dachau, TIME, 22 Feb. 2025
Elisabeth was deported to a concentration camp in 1942 and murdered.
—Catherine Hickley, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
My mother was a child survivor of imprisonment at the hands of the federal government in a World War II U.S. concentration camp.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
Per People, Prince William had been scheduled to attend the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; however, Princess Catherine was a late and unexpected addition to the guest list.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 27 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
Noun
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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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Migrants being held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are now being permitted to speak to their attorneys by phone, an official for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a court filing.—
Laura Romero,
ABC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.—
Patrick Wilson,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Jan. 2025
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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
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un maintains an iron grip through the threat and reality of labor camps and murder along with a fanatical propaganda personality cult.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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An additional million had been thrown into arbitrary detention or packed off to penal colonies and labor camps.—
Gary J. Bass,
Foreign Affairs,
14 June 2018
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Marcus Stroman reported to camp later than other pitchers and stated his refusal to pitch out of the bullpen.—
Daniel R. Epstein,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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With the six-man rotation no longer in play for Opening Day the Red Sox have three bullpen jobs up for grabs, and there are probably seven or eight guys with a plausible path for a spot.—
Mac Cerullo,
Hartford Courant,
2 Mar. 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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