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Recent Examples of reform school
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.
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Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
Elwood is sentenced to time at the Nickel Academy, a reform school for boys.
—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
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Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2025
Elwood is sentenced to time at the Nickel Academy, a reform school for boys.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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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
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For decades, advocates for the disabled have called for closing the training school.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Feb. 2025
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Brünnlitz was a German labor camp, and as Spielberg showed in his film, a list was created with names of those who would be relocated there.—
Danuta Hamlin,
Fox News,
25 Jan. 2025
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Her mother was born in a Siberian prison camp.—
Lucas Y. Tomlinson Fox News,
Fox News,
10 Mar. 2025
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Holmes, 41, is incarcerated at a federal minimum-security prison camp outside Houston.—
Ethan Baron,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
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He was driven to a nearby concentration camp and held overnight.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
13 Apr. 2025
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Photo: Courtesy of Hannah Jackson Eighty years ago today, on April 11, 1945, Morris was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany.—
Hannah Jackson,
Vogue,
11 Apr. 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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