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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

Deputy Chief Magistrate Sharon Freund said there was a reformation of the case after two alleged victims withdrew, though there was no explanation as to why they were no longer part of the case.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2025

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

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

It was finally at the general chapter that all regulations, laws, and reformations, concerning the Fehm-law and courts, were made.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

No such concomitant defect attended the reformations in grammar which, begun by the grammarians of the sixteenth century, were pursued still more systematically by Vaugelas and his followers.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

He thinks there is great need of reformations and changes in the Church.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles




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