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Recent Examples of reform school
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.
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Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Nickel Boys is a unique screen adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel based on real-life abusive reform schools in America.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
After nearly two decades of reform schools and prison stints, Manson moved to San Francisco in March 1967, according to The New York Times.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Mind Control and Operation MKUltra Manson spent his early years in foster homes and reform schools before being arrested for the first time in 1956, and was released from prison in 1967.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Nickel Boys is a unique screen adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel based on real-life abusive reform schools in America.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
After nearly two decades of reform schools and prison stints, Manson moved to San Francisco in March 1967, according to The New York Times.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Mind Control and Operation MKUltra Manson spent his early years in foster homes and reform schools before being arrested for the first time in 1956, and was released from prison in 1967.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
Noun
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The new Scuola Bulgari is the first publicly accessible Bulgari training school focused on jewelry, which will open in September.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2025
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The facility has an on-site training school, which welcomes groups of 10 apprentices at a time and also provides on-the-job training for existing employees, who are 82 percent female and range in age from 18 to 65.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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My father died under the Khmer Rouge, succumbing to dysentery and malnutrition after being forced to work in a labor camp.—
Sophal Ear,
The Conversation,
14 Apr. 2025
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The novelist Daniel Kehlmann became interested in film as a child, the son of a father who survived a Nazi labor camp and went on to direct movies and theater.—
David Segal,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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There are Earthquakes and opera singers and prison camps for human experimentation.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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Advertisement Though he had been banned from baseball since 1989, served five months in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion, was a known philanderer and a largely unsuccessful gambler, Rose remained one of the most beloved former athletes in the nation.—
Mike Kupper,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Sep. 2024
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New York Supreme Court Judge Althea Drysdale on April 23 ordered the Art Institute of Chicago to return a drawing by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele to the heirs of its onetime owner, who died in a concentration camp in 1941.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
25 Apr. 2025
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Somehow Petr had managed to bring his birthday gift to the station unnoticed among the family’s suitcases, and 87 years later concentration camp survivor Gidon Lev still feels the sting of being forced to leave it behind.—
Dina Kraft,
Christian Science Monitor,
24 Apr. 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 24 May. 2025.
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