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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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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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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
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Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
6 Aug. 2025
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Who was released from Russian custody in the swap? More than a dozen people were released from Russian prisons and labor camps, several of them Russian pro-democracy and human rights activists or prominent opposition figures of Russian president Vladimir Putin.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
1 Aug. 2025
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After that interview, Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a low-security prison camp in Texas.—
Jake Offenhartz,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Maxwell was convicted and is serving a 20-year prison sentence at an all-female federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she was recently moved from a minimum security prison in Tallahassee, Florida.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
5 Aug. 2025
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As the troops arrived Tuesday, D.C. residents who spoke to the Washington Examiner shared a variety of reactions ranging from support for the president’s actions to horror at the prospect of being sent to a concentration camp.—
Haisten Willis,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Aug. 2025
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Multiple attendees referred to the new Florida immigrant detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz as a concentration camp.—
Lawrence Andrea,
jsonline.com,
1 Aug. 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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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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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reform%20school. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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