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Recent Examples of work camp
Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.
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Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
Whelan, a former Marine who lived in Novi, was accused of espionage and convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
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Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024
Whelan, a former Marine who lived in Novi, was accused of espionage and convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
—Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
Noun
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Marcy Thompson: Not long after being transported to Theresienstadt, Margarethe was sent to Treblinka, a concentration camp.—
Marcy Thompson,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2025
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While some managed to flee, many were deported and killed in concentration camps.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In World War II, the invading Germans sent the owners to labor camps and incinerated the farmstead.—
Ellen Ruppel Shell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Nov. 2024
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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
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Numerous Soviet enterprises, operating under dozens of ministries, used POWs contracted out by prison camp officials.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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This would move more people out of expensive prison camps and into prerelease custody, a much lower cost option.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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