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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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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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But that dream came with challenges, and now a lawsuit against American Airlines and a flight training school.—
Shambhavi Rimal,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
18 Dec. 2025
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In another extraordinary anecdote, Chang describes hitchhiking her way across remote China to a labor camp her father was being held in, to lift his spirits.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
13 Jan. 2026
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People were forced into labor camps in the countryside; schools and temples were turned into prisons; and paddy fields were used as execution sites.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
14 Dec. 2025
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After Japan's surrender at the end of the war, Mino was captured as a prisoner of war and sent to a Siberian prison camp in Russia.—
Ashley Sharp,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Holmes, 41, has two small children and is serving her term at a minimum-security prison camp northwest of Houston.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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The Gestapo was the secret police force of Nazi Germany that helped round up Jews and send them to their deaths at concentration camps.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
19 Jan. 2026
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Get a close look at more than 400 photos and 500 original artifacts from those who survived and died at the concentration camp.—
Caroline Ritzie,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Jan. 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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