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Recent Examples of reform school
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.
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Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Murphy stars as the title character, a head teacher at a reform school for boys.
—Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
From our fall film & TV preview: Max Porter has adapted the screenplay for Steve from his own novella Shy, about the head teacher of a reform school (Cillian Murphy) who finds the walls closing in on all fronts, professional and personal.
—Emily Temple
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 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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Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Murphy stars as the title character, a head teacher at a reform school for boys.
—Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
From our fall film & TV preview: Max Porter has adapted the screenplay for Steve from his own novella Shy, about the head teacher of a reform school (Cillian Murphy) who finds the walls closing in on all fronts, professional and personal.
—Emily Temple
september 30, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 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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But that dream came with challenges, and now a lawsuit against American Airlines and a flight training school.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Dec. 2025
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McRae attended the training school for the Alberta Ballet company and competed in dance competitions every weekend.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
11 Dec. 2025
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People were forced into labor camps in the countryside; schools and temples were turned into prisons; and paddy fields were used as execution sites.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
14 Dec. 2025
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Born in the then-Austro-Hungarian Empire, the 85-year-old said his family was put in a labor camp, subject to starvation.—
Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
5 Dec. 2025
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The following March, Navarro—at the age of seventy-four—began a four-month sentence in a senior dorm at a federal prison camp in Miami.—
Ian Parker,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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Just a week later, Maxwell was moved to a more permissive prison camp in Texas.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
21 Dec. 2025
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Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the age of 15, months before the end of the war.—
Jill Lawless,
Chicago Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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The Schloss family was betrayed and sent to concentration camps in 1944.—
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
5 Jan. 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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