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Recent Examples of prison camp
There are Earthquakes and opera singers and prison camps for human experimentation.
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Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Advertisement Though he had been banned from baseball since 1989, served five months in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion, was a known philanderer and a largely unsuccessful gambler, Rose remained one of the most beloved former athletes in the nation.
—Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
This last plot strand crimps some of Accountant’s fast, loose fun: Kids in prison camps — and this one could end up a death camp, if the villains have their way — aren’t very entertaining.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Two cousins are sent to prison camps, while two remain free.
—Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 2 Apr. 2025
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Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Advertisement Though he had been banned from baseball since 1989, served five months in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion, was a known philanderer and a largely unsuccessful gambler, Rose remained one of the most beloved former athletes in the nation.
—Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
This last plot strand crimps some of Accountant’s fast, loose fun: Kids in prison camps — and this one could end up a death camp, if the villains have their way — aren’t very entertaining.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Two cousins are sent to prison camps, while two remain free.
—Michael Schaub, Oc Register, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
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Her father, Charles M. Gavin III, served with the 84th Infantry Division during World War II and helped liberate two concentration camps.—
Suzanne Nuyen,
NPR,
24 May 2025
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With that said, there is one cinematic Holocaust project that comes closest to depicting the objectively depraved existence of life in a concentration camp, 2015’s Son of Saul, which premiered at Cannes 10 years ago this week.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
27 May 2025
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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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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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Anyone who assaults or attacks an ICE or Border Agent will do hard time in jail.—
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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Ramos-Jimenez was then arrested and taken to a local jail for possessing a weapon as a felon, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.—
Lesley Cosme Torres,
People.com,
12 June 2025
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His return is a part of A’s manager Mark Kotsay’s attempts to fix the bullpen, which was a major cause of the losing streak.—
Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
6 June 2025
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Landon Knack surrendered three homers and recorded just 10 outs the day before a potential bullpen day.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
6 June 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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