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Recent Examples of reform school
Elwood is sentenced to time at the Nickel Academy, a reform school for boys.
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Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2024
This Morning, This Evening (a portrait of a rural Alabama community in which Ross embedded himself), to Nickel Boys, his impressionistic bravura fiction feature debut about two Black boys sent to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
The immersive and emotionally powerful movie, up for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay, devised a new way to portray point-of-view onscreen for this story of two boys abused at a southern reform school.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
It’s set in Florida in the early 1960s at a reform school.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
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Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2024
This Morning, This Evening (a portrait of a rural Alabama community in which Ross embedded himself), to Nickel Boys, his impressionistic bravura fiction feature debut about two Black boys sent to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida.
—Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2025
The immersive and emotionally powerful movie, up for Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay, devised a new way to portray point-of-view onscreen for this story of two boys abused at a southern reform school.
—Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 10 Feb. 2025
It’s set in Florida in the early 1960s at a reform school.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
Noun
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Hollywood Casino-Aurora is looking to hire for positions including food and beverage staff, security and surveillance positions, table games and slot attendants as well as dealers, both those who are experienced and those who are willing to go to dealer training school, according to the release.—
Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Mar. 2025
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Republican purists wanted a simple, technical training school that kept the costs low and, more importantly, kept the officer corps from evolving into an aristocracy.—
Ryan Shaw / Made by History,
TIME,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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His Polish father had fought for the Allied Armed Forces, while his Belarusian mother had survived a Nazi labor camp.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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North Korea's Kim Jong Un maintains an iron grip through the threat and reality of labor camps and murder along with a fanatical propaganda personality cult.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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Jacob Elordi endures the horrors of a World War II prison camp in the new trailer for the upcoming miniseries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
17 Mar. 2025
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The North Korean government has long denied the existence of political prison camps.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Mar. 2025
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The group was later found, and Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
25 Feb. 2025
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And nearly half of Americans surveyed couldn't name a single German concentration camp or ghetto.—
Lee Cowan,
CBS News,
23 Feb. 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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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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