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reform

[ri-fawrm] / rɪˈfɔrm /


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Farmers will have to fallow their alfalfa fields, homeowners pull out their lawns, industries will have to reform.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Nomura likes the Japanese pharmaceutical wholesaler’s approach to anticipating investor expectations by undertaking reform in wholesaling business, formulating strategies to boost return on equity, and enhancing shareholder returns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Someone may distrust the industrial food system while enthusiastically supporting an administration promising to reform it.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

"Every reform, everything that you try to do when you try to change the status quo, there is pushback," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

After much pleading and promises of reform he succeeded in getting her to come home and he abandoned his concubine.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Meanwhile, the group’s diagnostics division posted a 5% rise in quarterly sales, with demand for core lab and pathology systems offsetting a hit from China’s healthcare-pricing reforms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

The energy minister has insisted she backs Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's immigration reforms after she made what she described as a "light-hearted remark".

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

According to the White House, the aim is to support policy reforms to ensure that women’s research is well-funded and that women have access to “stage-specific prevention, diagnoses, treatment, and care.”

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

During the gathering, which drew more than 200 corporate leaders to Berlin, Merz touted reforms aimed at streamlining regulatory requirements and cited a massive spending campaign on the country's infrastructure and military.

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026

Their religious experience may have been turbulent and filled with controversies, reforms and revolutions.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

"The licence fee should be reformed so it is no longer linked to the consumption of live TV or to a particular device, such as a television set," the committee said.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

He declined to rejoin the band when it reformed in 2001.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Andy Burnham has told the BBC "the NHS will collapse" if social care is not reformed but said he could not put a timeline on changes.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

A week later, he voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, which reformed Medicaid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The words scattered, then reformed, and the same word flashed.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

After college, he founded a think tank dedicated to reforming government.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

With 19 policymakers, it is difficult to make progress given diverse individual perspectives, strongly held views and the challenge of reforming such a complicated beast.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Now 27, she despairs when hearing another Cornell president talk about reforming the Greek system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

That conventional process, known as methane-steam reforming, releases carbon dioxide while producing hydrogen.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Beside it, the spilled ink seeps back into its jar, the glass fragments reforming around it.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern


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