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Recent Examples of reform school
The film, an adaptation of a novel of the same name by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead, is a portrait of two Black boys who are sent to a violent reform school closely modeled on Dozier.
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Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Nickel Boys is a unique screen adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel based on real-life abusive reform schools in America.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
After nearly two decades of reform schools and prison stints, Manson moved to San Francisco in March 1967, according to The New York Times.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Mind Control and Operation MKUltra Manson spent his early years in foster homes and reform schools before being arrested for the first time in 1956, and was released from prison in 1967.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2025
Nickel Boys is a unique screen adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning historical novel based on real-life abusive reform schools in America.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Feb. 2025
After nearly two decades of reform schools and prison stints, Manson moved to San Francisco in March 1967, according to The New York Times.
—Emily Krauser, People.com, 9 Mar. 2025
Mind Control and Operation MKUltra Manson spent his early years in foster homes and reform schools before being arrested for the first time in 1956, and was released from prison in 1967.
—Jake Kring-Schreifels, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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The new Scuola Bulgari is the first publicly accessible Bulgari training school focused on jewelry, which will open in September.—
Luisa Zargani,
Footwear News,
16 Apr. 2025
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The facility has an on-site training school, which welcomes groups of 10 apprentices at a time and also provides on-the-job training for existing employees, who are 82 percent female and range in age from 18 to 65.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work at labor camps in rural areas.—
Ray Cavanaugh,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps Nasser would not have sent Brothers to prison, labor camps, and the gallows.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Aug. 2018
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And although Peter fought for the rebel cause and now languishes in a Union prison camp, that principled act has led others to suspect his wife of less than ironclad loyalty.—
Alida Becker,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced a surprise move to close 6 federal prison camps and permanently close FCI Dublin.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
5 Dec. 2024
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That comes from my grandfather, who survived a concentration camp.—
Ben Croll,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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Ravensbrück, located 50 miles north of Berlin, was a concentration camp built for women, where as many as 40,000 perished before the war’s end.—
Chris Vognar,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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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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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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