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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.
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Alex Ritman,
Variety,
14 Nov. 2025
Skakel made it through reform school and rebuilt his life.
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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.
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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.
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Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
27 Sep. 2025
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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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.
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And this robot training school is a pretty good reflection of that.
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Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.
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He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
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Unlike the public perception often created by movies and television, daily life at a federal prison camp revolves around work assignments, educational programming, treatment, and institutional responsibilities.
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Samuel Murphy is a war veteran who has been busted and sent to a notorious prison camp.
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More than 250 were documented to have died in concentration camps.
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Other relatives were deported to the concentration camps Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
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The Koskinen baby was reunited with his mother, and Marzano went to a reformatory.
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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.
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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reform%20school. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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