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Recent Examples of labor camp
In World War II, the invading Germans sent the owners to labor camps and incinerated the farmstead.
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Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
Repression and surveillance are now everywhere, although few expect a return to the labor camps and mass executions of the 1950s and 1960s.
—Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
Parts of the dense, equatorial mainland, as well as the islands that lay off the shore of the nascent capital, Cayenne, would be turned into labor camps and prisons for the most serious criminal offenders in mainland France.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
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Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
Repression and surveillance are now everywhere, although few expect a return to the labor camps and mass executions of the 1950s and 1960s.
—Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs, 13 June 2023
Parts of the dense, equatorial mainland, as well as the islands that lay off the shore of the nascent capital, Cayenne, would be turned into labor camps and prisons for the most serious criminal offenders in mainland France.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 13 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for labor 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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When her husband was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, Girone was eight months pregnant, Claims Conference said.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
28 Feb. 2025
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And on the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, run by a Nazi puppet regime, architect Bogdan Bogdanović crafted perhaps the most optimistic acknowledgment of the will to overcome the 20th century’s darkest hours.—
Michael Allen,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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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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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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Wedding served a four-year jail sentence after agreeing to forfeit more than $121,000 seized during an airport sting and agreeing to drop an appeal of his conviction.—
Jackson Thompson,
Fox News,
8 Mar. 2025
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Both suspects were arrested and booked into main jail.—
Anne Gelhaus,
The Mercury News,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20camp. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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