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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Wells was a former theology student and social worker who became convinced that reform efforts would go much further if reformers were public officers with proper police credentials.
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Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025
By the 1970s, inured in the culture of the moment, progressive reformers were driven to do something in Baltimore and across America that many of their peers would have considered anathema a decade earlier: rein in the authority of the purportedly wise men running powerful institutions.
—Marc J. Dunkelman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
Pilates reformer classes are an add-on that aren’t included with the unlimited fitness classes.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 12 Feb. 2025
The scale of the current tragedy throws into relief what many prison reformers see as the injustice of the current program, which is largely made possible due a 13th Amendment loophole that allows incarcerated people to be forced to work for public and private enterprises for extremely low wages.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2025
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Peter Zablocki, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2025
By the 1970s, inured in the culture of the moment, progressive reformers were driven to do something in Baltimore and across America that many of their peers would have considered anathema a decade earlier: rein in the authority of the purportedly wise men running powerful institutions.
—Marc J. Dunkelman, TIME, 27 Feb. 2025
Pilates reformer classes are an add-on that aren’t included with the unlimited fitness classes.
—Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 12 Feb. 2025
The scale of the current tragedy throws into relief what many prison reformers see as the injustice of the current program, which is largely made possible due a 13th Amendment loophole that allows incarcerated people to be forced to work for public and private enterprises for extremely low wages.
—Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 11 Jan. 2025
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“Reformer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reformer. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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reformer
noun
re·form·er
ri-ˈfȯr-mər
: one that works for reform
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