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reform

[ri-fawrm] / rɪˈfɔrm /


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"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

Suk’s scholarship focuses on the processes of constitutional amendment and reform and the feminist constitutional movements.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

“It still needs reform, and I’ll fight for that reform as mayor.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

But with major reform some way off, fears are growing about the months ahead.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

“It’s a little late in the game to try to reform him now. Humor the man.”

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

Under scrutiny by global index providers and credit rating agencies, Indonesian authorities have announced reforms and sought to address market concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"That is why country strategies and compacts matter. Roadmaps built around a country's ambitions, the results we are trying to achieve together, and the investments and reforms required to get there," he said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The current protests follow student-led demonstrations earlier this year over exam irregularities and demands for education reforms.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

That means only about 83% of all earnings covered by the program are subject to the payroll tax, compared with 90% in 1983, when the last major reforms to Social Security were passed.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

The notion that all of these reforms can be accomplished piecemeal—one at a time, through disconnected advocacy strategies—seems deeply misguided.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Paris will never get its numbers to add up if such an expenditure can’t be debated or reformed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The university also hired a new provost and new deans and reformed its discipline policies to make them “more consistent, fair and effective,” Garber has said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 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

Even some Canadian economists and pundits have called for it to be dismantled or reformed.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

They spared those who proved they could be reformed.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

The president began work on reforming the Smithsonian on March 27, 2025, by issuing Executive Order 14253.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

Ahead of the speech, the paper highlights ongoing questions around reforming the triple lock, under which pensions rise each year by the highest of inflation, average earnings or 2.5%.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

For better or worse, the coming decades were to be about music taking on the task of reforming humanity, dreaming up a new Utopia and leading the arts to unite mankind.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall


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