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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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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
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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
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Petrook's father was forced into a labor camp, but escaped.—
Lisa Rozner,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
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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
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Burke checked himself into a low-security federal prison camp in Thomson, Illinois, in September 2024, to start a two-year sentence on his corruption case.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Apr. 2026
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She was subsequently sentenced to prison for her role in a years-long telemarketing scheme that the government said defrauded innocent people across the country, and after serving two years and nine months at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, she was released in December 2025.—
Nicholas Rice,
PEOPLE,
4 Apr. 2026
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In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to wartime concentration camps in California, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Arkansas.—
Hua Hsu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Soon after, he was hired as a war crimes investigator and visited concentration camps during the World War II liberation to document Nazi crimes.—
Lois K. Solomon,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Apr. 2026
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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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“Reform school.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reform%20school. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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