reformer
noun
re·form·er
ri-ˈfȯr-mər 
1
: one that works for or urges reform
2
capitalized
: a leader of the Protestant Reformation
3
: an apparatus for cracking oils or gases to form specialized products
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When Prime Minister Narendra Modi entered office in 2014, there were high hopes that the Indian leader would be a free-market reformer.
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Alex Little, National Review, 8 Apr. 2024
But activists eventually found an ally in Abdoulaye Wade, who was elected Senegal’s president in 2000 as a modern reformer.
—Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2024
Medvedev was once seen as a potential reformer with a softer touch than Putin.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
Explorer and soldier John Fremont, one of the state’s first two senators, is one of the few historic notables, as are newspaper publisher George Hearst, railroad baron Leland Stanford, political reformer Hiram Johnson and newspaper publisher William Knowland.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
The first was shifting the focus of school toward appealing to the interests of the child, rather than transmitting ancient knowledge and wisdom, which these reformers considered élitist.
—Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Anyone who missed these discussions might have instead gone to the panel on bipartisanship where Republican housing reformers from Arizona and Montana talked with a Democratic state senator from Vermont.
—Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
There were other early signs that Putin was no reformer.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
Patty, meanwhile, was one of the most important education reformers in the United States, serving as the first president of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and a professor at Columbia University.
—Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
Alex Little, National Review, 8 Apr. 2024
But activists eventually found an ally in Abdoulaye Wade, who was elected Senegal’s president in 2000 as a modern reformer.
—Ayen Deng Bior, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2024
Medvedev was once seen as a potential reformer with a softer touch than Putin.
—Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
Explorer and soldier John Fremont, one of the state’s first two senators, is one of the few historic notables, as are newspaper publisher George Hearst, railroad baron Leland Stanford, political reformer Hiram Johnson and newspaper publisher William Knowland.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
The first was shifting the focus of school toward appealing to the interests of the child, rather than transmitting ancient knowledge and wisdom, which these reformers considered élitist.
—Emma Green, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
Anyone who missed these discussions might have instead gone to the panel on bipartisanship where Republican housing reformers from Arizona and Montana talked with a Democratic state senator from Vermont.
—Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
There were other early signs that Putin was no reformer.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
Patty, meanwhile, was one of the most important education reformers in the United States, serving as the first president of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and a professor at Columbia University.
—Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
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reformer
noun
re·form·er
ri-ˈfȯr-mər
: one that works for reform
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