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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
The movie includes footage of real historical tragedies — harrowing video from liberated concentration camps — along with contemporaneous ones, like the crash of PSA Flight 182, which happened less than two months before Faces of Death was released.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
The item, a square from a prisoner’s Nazi concentration camp uniform with a pink triangle and number on it, has since been displayed in a special case.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Historians say Lutz helped prevent half of the Jewish population of Budapest from being sent to Nazi concentration camps.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
Some like Sarkar equated a detention center in Dublin to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II or to the Jewish concentration camps of Nazi Germany.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
The item, a square from a prisoner’s Nazi concentration camp uniform with a pink triangle and number on it, has since been displayed in a special case.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Historians say Lutz helped prevent half of the Jewish population of Budapest from being sent to Nazi concentration camps.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
Some like Sarkar equated a detention center in Dublin to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II or to the Jewish concentration camps of Nazi Germany.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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Burke checked himself into a low-security federal prison camp in Thomson, Illinois, in September 2024, to start a two-year sentence on his corruption case.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
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She was subsequently sentenced to prison for her role in a years-long telemarketing scheme that the government said defrauded innocent people across the country, and after serving two years and nine months at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, she was released in December 2025.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
4 Apr. 2026
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And Nazi officials had promised Auschwitz’s Buna work camp thousands of skilled Jewish laborers – a quota that was not met because of the Rosenstrasse Jews’ release.—
Danielle Wirsansky,
The Conversation,
10 Mar. 2026
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An inmate serving a 10-year sentence for first-degree burglary walked away from a state prison work camp Monday night in El Dorado County, state officials said.—
Nicole Buss,
Sacbee.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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The labor camp, already on the National Register of Historic Places, was run by Tom Collins, to whom Steinbeck dedicated his 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Grapes of Wrath.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Petrook's father was forced into a labor camp, but escaped.—
Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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The offense was good enough to give the bullpen plenty of cushion on a day when the relievers had to work all nine innings.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
16 Apr. 2026
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For the next seven to 10 days, Counsell won’t be able to fully go with the best matchups out of the bullpen with five lefties and just three right-handers available.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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