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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
During World War II, the U.S. government incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in 10 concentration camps.
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Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
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
Millions of people have visited Europe’s concentration camps like Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Freundlich was sent to a concentration camp on March 4, 1943, and died there five days later.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
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Laurie Kellman, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
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
Millions of people have visited Europe’s concentration camps like Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
Freundlich was sent to a concentration camp on March 4, 1943, and died there five days later.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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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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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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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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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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Further bullpen upgrades could still be coming, but as for any other specific areas of improvement, Stearns could go either way.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
26 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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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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