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reformation

[ref-er-may-shuhn] / ˌrɛf ərˈmeɪ ʃən /




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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

The budding clean hydrogen industry has come up with a color scheme to identify the dirty process known as methane steam reformation and make it easier for the general public to understand cleaner alternatives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2024

"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

And so, before the Scientific Revolution was a revolution, it was a reformation.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

I do not expect any great improvement in our prisons, till I see great reformations out of them.

From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds

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

In the famous Dartmoor prison and at Borstal in Kent experiments are being made to secure a greater number of reformations among the younger convicts.

From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll


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