reformation
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"It also aims to prevent the reformation of a criminal organisation that existed until a few years ago," he told a news conference.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
However, the amount of reformation each winter is in decline, as rising temperatures due to climate change disproportionately affect the Arctic.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
After three stays of execution, Ramirez has run out of opportunities to appeal, and despite having shown evidence of reformation, the pleas by those in Ramirez’s corner go unheard.
From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2025
Shannon Lee briefly joined Laner for a reformation of Medicine in 2003 and the album “The Mechanical Forces of Love.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024
‘The main Design,’ wrote Hooke in 1665, of his own efforts and those of the Royal Society, was ‘a reformation in Philosophy’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Ironically, “the” Reformation as the sundering of Christian unity was at least in part the product of prosaic reformations already occurring within the Church.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
In Germany and Russia, political reformations of the world were attempted.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This opportunity ought to have been seized on for effecting those reformations, provoked by the corruptions which the false decretals had produced in the ecclesiastical discipline.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
There were the usual alternations of short-lived reformations, exciting hopes only to be destroyed.
From The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe
All our reformations are banters, and will be so till our magistrates and gentry reform themselves, by way of example; then, and not till then, they may be expected to punish others without blushing.
From The True-Born Englishman A Satire by Daniel Defoe
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