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reformation

[ref-er-mey-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

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

"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

But, since it was not permissible to ignore, those eight minutes pointed the road to a complete reformation in astronomy.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

But America is in a situation the most favorable for great reformations; and the present time is, in a singular degree, auspicious.

From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.

In former reformations, our worthy ancestors used to begin with renovation of the national covenants, and acknowledgments of the breaches thereof, which hitherto hath been neglected, to the great grief of many.

From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by Howie, John

It comes out in the reformations under the pious Kings of Judah.

From The Ministry of Intercession A Plea for More Prayer by Murray, Andrew




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