reform 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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Noun
  • 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
  • And this robot training school is a pretty good reflection of that.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 May 2026
Noun
  • He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
    Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Blanche met with Maxwell last July and days after the meeting, she was transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • The Nazis, three years in power, had begun operating Germany’s first concentration camps.
    Vann R. Newkirk II, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • Exceeding expectations As a trip set mainly in concentration camps, sadness is often the top expectation.
    Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • The Koskinen baby was reunited with his mother, and Marzano went to a reformatory.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 3 May 2025
  • 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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