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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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Helene has cemented the Tar Heel state as a target for disaster tourism, a cultural phenomenon that recasts war zones as holiday destinations and slots concentration camps onto bucket lists.—
Lila Hempel-Edgers
July 22,
Charlotte Observer,
22 July 2025
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Erik becomes Magneto, and those early experiences in the concentration camp indelibly shaped his character and world view, fueling his nefarious plans for mutants to displace humans as the dominant species on Earth.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 July 2025
Noun
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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
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 30 Jul. 2025.
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