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Recent Examples of prison camp
At that time, the race course had been turned into a Confederate prison camp for Union soldiers.
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Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Many other Soviet citizens were sent to the gulag, a grim network of prison camps, spread across the world’s largest country.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
They were sent to the new communist government’s re-education prison camps and forced to do hard labor.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 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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Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Many other Soviet citizens were sent to the gulag, a grim network of prison camps, spread across the world’s largest country.
—Reuters, CNN Money, 23 May 2025
They were sent to the new communist government’s re-education prison camps and forced to do hard labor.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 29 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 prison camp
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Case in point, James Moll’s The Last Days, which zeroes in on a handful of Hungarian Jews who survived the Holocaust in the last year of World War II, when Nazi Germany occupied Hungary and began mass deportations to concentration camps.—
Will Harris,
EW.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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The Auschwitz Memorial condemned Braun on X for a different reason on July 10, denying the existence of gas chambers at the concentration camp where more than 1 million Jews were murdered, but did not weigh in on the incidents at Jedwabne.—
Shira Li Bartov,
Sun Sentinel,
22 July 2025
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But told his semen will be used to artificially inseminate women before he’s killed at a labor camp?—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
11 July 2025
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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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He was sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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In the series, the submarine is a secret project of the company’s that Nemo, who was a prisoner in a work camp for three years, helped design.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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The American-Statesman and KVUE-TV recently discovered dozens of instances in which felony defendants stayed in jail well beyond 90 days without an indictment.—
Tony Plohetski,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Ghaly pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and was sentenced in November to 230 days in jail, plus probation.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 July 2025
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Cash, 47, played for Francona when the Reds manager helmed the Boston Red Sox and then served as Francona’s bullpen coach in Cleveland before becoming the Rays’ manager.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
26 July 2025
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The addition of Duran would solidify the backend of the Yankees' bullpen as one of the best units in baseball.—
Zach Pressnell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 July 2025
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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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