reformer
Example Sentences
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They were the words of a moral reformer.
That helped turn her into a political reformer.
From Los Angeles Times
We often think of the 1990s in Iran as a time when clerical reformers and intellectuals were trying to reconcile faith and reason, to create a left-wing hybrid of Islam and democracy.
If it is the fate of all men to be eclipsed by time, it is the special fate of the reformers of the day to be swamped by the incoming tide of tomorrow.
A new biography of one of the progressive era’s numerous women reformers makes clear that there was one important difference between then and now.
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