reform school

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for reform school
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Noun
  • Hulu set the mood for the evening when two dozen young women, dressed in their Gilead wife-training school’s purple uniforms, walked in solemn unison down the carpet, each carrying a small pie and boarding a bus with curtains covering the windows.
    Alex Cramer, HollywoodReporter, 1 Apr. 2026
  • On this date in 1892, the 13 original rules of basketball were printed in the training school newspaper for the Springfield YMCA.
    Zach Harper, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Half Moon Bay, a San Mateo County coastal city of just over 11,000 residents, gained national attention in 2023 when a mass shooting at a farm labor camp exposed the squalid living conditions of farmworkers in the area.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • His mother was sent to a labor camp, and young Jimmy was left to care for his siblings.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In 2025, Maxwell, Epstein's associate, was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas.
    Maegan Vazquez The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Shah, a Real Housewives of Salt Lake City alum, was released from a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, in December 2025, after serving time for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The penalty for those caught listening by German detector vans was deportation to a concentration camp.
    Max Hastings, Twin Cities, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Language comparing detention facilities to concentration camps has been controversial around the country.
    Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 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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