reformation
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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
"Our study shows that spiny mouse macrophages release distinct proteins that are partially responsible for the reformation of specialized tissues at the site of injury and for protecting cells from stress," said Seifert.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2024
He has said the bill will allow for the reformation of the Stormont Executive.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024
The Quakers’ goals were prevention of further harm to society, deterrence, and, by the early nineteenth century, encouragement of prisoners to en-gage in “penitent reflection,” which could result in their personal reformation.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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
The birth-places of the greatest of the world's social, political, and religious reformations have generally been of insignificant and lowly aspect, and apparently under the most inauspicious circumstances for producing any great effect upon mankind.
From Hydesville The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism by Thomas Olman Todd
The King’s grace should proceed to determine all reformations, of spiritual and temporal, within his realm.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude
But the reformation of prisoners is only a small fraction in the reformations which are called for.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
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