reformer
Example Sentences
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But for many, the absence of a Capitol tribute underscores a familiar tension: America celebrates its reformers rhetorically, even as its institutions struggle to fully honor them.
From Salon
Social reformers, however, were already hard at work spreading what would be consequential ideas.
“Despite all evidence to the contrary, Marshall still believed,” in Mr. Dikötter’s words, that the Communists “were not doctrinaire ideologists, but merely rural reformers who could help shape a democratic China.”
To the outside world it seemed an almost miraculous democratic transition, evidence perhaps that among the stony-faced generals there might be genuine reformers.
From BBC
On the way in, I had seen women in the reformer room chatting animatedly as they packed up.
From Los Angeles Times
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