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Recent Examples of reform school
The Londoner — who was recently listed among Variety‘s Actors to Watch — stars alongside Cillian Murphy in the Toronto-bowing film, playing a troubled young man at a reform school for boys with behavioural difficulties.
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
Skakel made it through reform school and rebuilt his life.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2025
Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s 2023 Sunday Times bestseller Shy, and twists that story on its axis to be told from reform school headteacher Steve’s point of view.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher (Cillian Murphy) of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 27 Sep. 2025
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Alex Ritman, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
Skakel made it through reform school and rebuilt his life.
—Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2025
Steve is a reimagining of Max Porter’s 2023 Sunday Times bestseller Shy, and twists that story on its axis to be told from reform school headteacher Steve’s point of view.
—Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher (Cillian Murphy) of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 27 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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And this robot training school is a pretty good reflection of that.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 May 2026
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Raye and her two backing vocalists are doing choreographed dance moves a la the Motown training school.—
Peter Larsen,
Daily News,
13 May 2026
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He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.—
Nick Tabor,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
29 Apr. 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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Arthur Cofield is considered armed and dangerous and has not been seen since escaping from a federal prison camp in Georgia.—
Dan Raby,
CBS News,
1 June 2026
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The Justice Department moved Maxwell from a federal prison in Florida to a prison camp in Texas last August.—
Stephen Groves,
Chicago Tribune,
29 May 2026
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Concentration Camps, Hitler And The Allies One of the highlights of the exhibition are Miller’s war photographs, particularly those of the concentration camps and Hitler’s apartment.—
Cecilia Rodriguez,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2026
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After much of the population has been sent to concentration camps, those who remain fight back.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 May 2026
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The Koskinen baby was reunited with his mother, and Marzano went to a reformatory.—
Mara Bovsun,
New York Daily News,
3 May 2025
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Due’s novel follows a 12-year-old boy in the 1950s sentenced to an infamous reformatory where ghosts in the halls tell stories about the boys that have been abused and gone missing there.—
Clare Mulroy,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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