reformist
Example Sentences
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Jiang Zemin, a reformist autocrat with whom the U.S. got along, was the leader of China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
There were also contrasting views among Iran's major media, with the reformist newspaper Etemad on Saturday welcoming the progress as a way to break "chronic geopolitical and economic deadlock".
From Barron's ● Jun. 13, 2026
Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and later became a reformist politician pushing for environmental protections and women’s rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
But Iran's newly elected reformist president, Hassan Rouhani, convinced him that their dire economic straits gave them no other choice but to do everything they could to lift crippling international sanctions.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
Ariston, in turn, was something of a reformist within the Stoic school, holding that studies of nature and logic were a waste of time because such truths were fundamentally beyond human understanding.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
