prison camp

noun

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as in concentration camp

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Recent Examples of prison camp Maxwell is currently serving her sentence at a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas. — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 25 Aug. 2026 By that time, Maxwell had been moved from a federal women’s facility in Tallahassee to a lower-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas. — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026 Navalna is now in a prison camp in a village near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan. — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 The dour Dostoyevsky probably didn’t mean this as a compliment to human nature; the line appears in a book, The House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp. — Literary Hub, 15 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for prison camp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prison camp
  1. concentration camp
  2. labor camp
  3. work camp
  4. jail
  5. bull pen
Noun
  • Man’s Search for Meaning chronicles Frankl’s experience as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Thousands of concentration camp inmates were also subjected to the practice.
    — Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of concentration camp
Noun
  • The Nazis conscripted her father and forced him to work at a labor camp.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 May 2026
Definition of labor 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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  • In July, Jacob Bickelhaupt’s lawyers asked that he be released from jail while the case is on an indefinite hold due to Nadia Bickelhaupt’s ongoing medical issues.
    — Zoey Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
  • This is punishable by up to one year in county jail, a fine of up to $10,000 or both.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of jail
Noun
  • 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
Definition of bull pen

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“Prison camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prison%20camp. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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