reform school

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Recent Examples of reform school 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 Nearly every scene is filmed through the eyes of its leads, two Black boys who have been sent away to a reform school in Jim Crow–era Florida. Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reform school
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • My father died under the Khmer Rouge, succumbing to dysentery and malnutrition after being forced to work in a labor camp.
    Sophal Ear, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The novelist Daniel Kehlmann became interested in film as a child, the son of a father who survived a Nazi labor camp and went on to direct movies and theater.
    David Segal, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • There are Earthquakes and opera singers and prison camps for human experimentation.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Advertisement Though he had been banned from baseball since 1989, served five months in a federal prison camp for income tax evasion, was a known philanderer and a largely unsuccessful gambler, Rose remained one of the most beloved former athletes in the nation.
    Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • New York Supreme Court Judge Althea Drysdale on April 23 ordered the Art Institute of Chicago to return a drawing by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele to the heirs of its onetime owner, who died in a concentration camp in 1941.
    News Desk, Artforum, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Somehow Petr had managed to bring his birthday gift to the station unnoticed among the family’s suitcases, and 87 years later concentration camp survivor Gidon Lev still feels the sting of being forced to leave it behind.
    Dina Kraft, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Koskinen baby was reunited with his mother, and Marzano went to a reformatory.
    Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News, 3 May 2025
  • 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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