reform school

noun

Definition of reform schoolnext
as in training school

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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. — 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 See All Example Sentences for reform school
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  1. training school
  2. labor camp
  3. prison camp
  4. concentration camp
  5. reformatory
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  • In September 2024, ‌JNIM attacked a paramilitary police training school near the ⁠Bamako airport, killing about 70 people.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 4 July 2026
  • The leaders, who last met in Beijing in September, also toured a ruling Workers’ Party training school and planted a fir tree symbolizing bilateral ties.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026
Definition of training school
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  • 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
  • He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
    — Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of labor camp
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  • Unlike the public perception often created by movies and television, daily life at a federal prison camp revolves around work assignments, educational programming, treatment, and institutional responsibilities.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Samuel Murphy is a war veteran who has been busted and sent to a notorious prison camp.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 25 June 2026
Definition of prison camp
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  • Her parents arrived in America with her older sister in 1947 after getting liberated from Auschwitz concentration camp and losing most of their family in the Holocaust.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2026
  • Maryland is home to a large Jewish community, many of whom had significant numbers of relatives who were butchered by the SS in concentration camps.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026
Definition of concentration camp
Noun
  • The novel follow six girls at the Home of the Good Shepherd laundry and Catholic reformatory in the 1960s.
    — Zachary Fletcher, USA Today, 7 July 2026
  • Only this second chance runs through youth reformatories and eventually the California State Prison – outside life is but a pipe dream.
    — Zach Dennis, Charlotte Observer, 15 May 2026
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