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Recent Examples of reform school
Operated by the title character, Steve — into whom lead actor Cillian Murphy channels all sorts of irreconcilable conflict — this is the reform school of last resort.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
The drama, which also features some darkly funny moments, is set in the mid-1990s and follows a pivotal day in the life of the titular headteacher and his students at a last-chance boys’ reform school.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
The film follows a pivotal day in the life of headteacher Steve (Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy) and his students at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken them.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 July 2025
The film follows a pivotal day in the life of headteacher Steve (Murphy, 49) and his students at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken them.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 24 June 2025
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
The drama, which also features some darkly funny moments, is set in the mid-1990s and follows a pivotal day in the life of the titular headteacher and his students at a last-chance boys’ reform school.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
The film follows a pivotal day in the life of headteacher Steve (Academy Award winner Cillian Murphy) and his students at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken them.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 22 July 2025
The film follows a pivotal day in the life of headteacher Steve (Murphy, 49) and his students at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken them.
—Jen Juneau, People.com, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
Noun
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Others include the operator of a flight training school in Pennsylvania.—
Mike Hendricks,
Kansas City Star,
14 Aug. 2025
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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
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Every day, the MLA team crisscrosses west Michigan in search of labor camps.—
David Rodriguez Muñoz,
Freep.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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As a teenager, Wiesel was sent with his father, Shlomo, to the Buna Werke labor camp in the Auschwitz complex.—
Grace Gilson,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Todd Chrisley was being released from a minimum-security federal prison camp in Pensacola, FL, Julie Chrisley was being released from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, KY, and the rest of the family lives near Nashville.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
1 Sep. 2025
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Soon after giving the interviews in late July, she was transferred to a cushier, minimum-security prison camp in Texas.—
Aysha Bagchi,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025
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World War II concentration camp footage, for instance, has been instrumental in fighting Holocaust denialism.—
James Hibberd,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Sep. 2025
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Margarete Buber-Neumann, who was incarcerated with her at Ravensbrück concentration camp, wrote one such biography.—
Christine Estima
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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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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