sweatshop

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Recent Examples of sweatshop From mafia style business practices to sweatshop labor, not to even mention the environmental costs. Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2024 Festival laurels aside, the full 10.5-hour deep-dive into Middle Kingdom sweatshops has also plugged local producers into a more global circuit. Ben Croll, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024 But unethical sweatshop labor and highly polluting international shipping suck even worse. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 2 Sep. 2024 Roadside Attractions has in 774 locations the political hot-button border crisis movie, City of Dreams about a boy whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are shattered when he’s smuggled from Mexico and sold to a sweatshop in downtown Los Angeles. Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for sweatshop 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sweatshop
Noun
  • The deals amount to one of the biggest commitments ever made by the department’s Loan Programs Office, which under President Biden has already doled out tens of billions of dollars for battery factories and other low-carbon energy projects.
    Brad Plumer, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Polestar was laser-focused on the US market with the Polestar 3, a three-row SUV manufactured at its factory in South Carolina in order to qualify for generous incentives under the Biden administration.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the Season 2 premiere of Goosebumps: The Vanishing, a tragedy 30 years prior comes back to haunt the Brewer family, as an ancient evil — and some very strange plants? — is unleashed and wreaks havoc on their Brooklyn community.
    Nick Caruso, TVLine, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Here the focus is on fuel reduction, clearing dead grass, weeds and plants and favoring native, fire-safe species.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The 147,000 square-foot space — a turn-of-the-century textile mill involved in the manufacturing of the first Spanx shapewear — was originally owned by Highland Park Manufacturing Company.
    Jessica Swannie, Charlotte Observer, 17 Jan. 2025
  • For these costumes, Lovaas sourced from mills in the American South but also in the U.K.
    Caroline Reilly, Robb Report, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The tourbillon is assembled by hand in JLC’s grand complication workshop.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Examples include webinars, hybrid conferences, and online workshops.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025

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“Sweatshop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sweatshop. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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