reform school

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Recent Examples of reform school Sunshine state panhandle reform school – a process that required a lot of trust, on all sides of the camera. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Feb. 2025 The scene primarily involves the character Hattie (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), who has come to visit her grandson, Elwood, at the reform school Nickel Academy, where the boy has been sent unjustly. Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025 The difference here is that director Ross knows just how much there is to mine in the faces and body language of a roomful of reform school residents awaiting punishment, or in the quiet, devastated aftermath. Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2025 The film, an adaptation of a novel of the same name by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, is a portrait of two Black boys who are sent to a violent reform school closely modeled on Dozier. Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reform school
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Noun
  • Ground was broken on a 51-acre site in Elk Grove Village, which was just 5 miles away from O’Hare International Airport, for United Airlines’ headquarters and training schools.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • Adam Penner, president of Harv’s Air pilot training school, said the two students, a man and a woman, were practicing takeoffs and landings.
    Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • But told his semen will be used to artificially inseminate women before he’s killed at a labor camp?
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 11 July 2025
  • As a result, practitioners of Falun Gong have faced persecution in China, with thousands imprisoned or sent to labor camps, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
    Juliana Kim, NPR, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • In late September, Burke, 81, had checked himself into the low-security federal prison camp at Thomson, Illinois, to start a two-year sentence on his corruption case.
    Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune, 8 July 2025
  • Contraband phones are easy to get into prison camps.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Helene has cemented the Tar Heel state as a target for disaster tourism, a cultural phenomenon that recasts war zones as holiday destinations and slots concentration camps onto bucket lists.
    Lila Hempel-Edgers July 22, Charlotte Observer, 22 July 2025
  • Erik becomes Magneto, and those early experiences in the concentration camp indelibly shaped his character and world view, fueling his nefarious plans for mutants to displace humans as the dominant species on Earth.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • The Koskinen baby was reunited with his mother, and Marzano went to a reformatory.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 3 May 2025
  • One of the teens, Elwood Curtis, sees his dreams of attending college shattered when he is sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South.
    Nora Colomer, Fox News, 24 Feb. 2025

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