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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.
—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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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 dance troupe is a product of the longtime Lois Ellyn Dance Studio, a dance training school founded in Fullerton by its namesake in 1956.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
24 Nov. 2025
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New York Therapy Animals' therapy dogs are trained at our NYC training school.—
Kelli Bender,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.—
Nick Tabor,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
29 Apr. 2026
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The warning came a year after a mass shooting at a coastal farm labor camp exposed squalid living conditions for farmworkers in the area.—
Ryan Macasero,
Mercury News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Blanche met with Maxwell last July and days after the meeting, she was transferred to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
10 June 2026
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The man was taken to the same prison camp as Peter, although the two men didn’t meet there.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
12 May 2026
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Anne and her family were arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and taken to concentration camps.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
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Poland 🇵🇱 The founder of home computing pioneer Commodore spent World War II in a concentration camp before coming to America in 1947.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
11 June 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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