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labor camp

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Definition of labor camp

as in prison camp

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Recent Examples of labor camp First union contract regulating safety and sanitary conditions in farm labor camps. — Marcos Breton, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026 In The Weight, Hawke plays Samuel Murphy, who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer played by Russell Crowe. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026 My parents grew up in Cambodia in the 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge took over the country and forced millions of people into labor camps. — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Feb. 2026 In one, she was sent to a labor camp after giving birth. — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for labor camp

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His attorney requested that he be incarcerated at FPC Yankton, a minimum-security federal prison camp in South Dakota.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence in a Texas federal prison camp, had argued she was selectively prosecuted as a scapegoat, but the judge dismissed those claims as frivolous.

— Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of prison camp

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The crosses to which the title alludes are, in fact, plane trees on the grounds of a fictional concentration camp called Westhofen, in southwestern Germany.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
This absence drives Shimoda to unearth historical records like FBI files; to visit Manzanar, the concentration camp his grandfather was sent to in Missouri; and to travel to his grandfather’s ancestral homeland in Japan.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of concentration camp

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Vertical is distributing the Depression-era film, in which Hawke plays a widower who is separated from his daughter when he gets sent to a brutal work camp.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Referenced as harkening back to classics such as William Friedkin’s Sorcerer and John Huston’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Weight is set in 1933 Oregon as Samuel Murphy (Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of work camp

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With the bullpen overworked from a busy week — which featured a doubleheader Wednesday — manager Craig Counsell said Friday wasn’t the time to be aggressive.

— Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
Opposing starters are going deep, and bullpens are staying well rested.

— Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 June 2026

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