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or reformistic
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: relating or belonging to a policy or movement of reform
reformist elements in the labor movement
reformist views
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Laurence Russell, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
In the 2000s, Mr. Erdogan’s blend of Islamism and reformism had Turkey knocking at the door of the European Union.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 May 2023
The story seeks to spin a failure of reformism into a myth of incremental accountability—a myth that the police are interested in policing themselves.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2023
As a National Party loyalist De Klerk continued on Botha’s path of apartheid reformism, including through talks.
—Christi Van Der Westhuizen, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2021
All the polite, incremental reformism—of sensitivity trainings, tweaks to use-of-force rules, and appeals to better nature—was revealed as hollow in the face of the protesters’ justified fury, of their courage, of their pride.
—Molly Crabapple, The New York Review of Books, 9 June 2020
Macron’s implacable reformism stood in apparent contrast to the populist nationalism surging across the continent.
—Arthur Goldhammer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2018
In other words Islamic reformism, radicalism, etc., are to some extent endogenous to Muslim societies, and probably an inevitable outcome of modernity, West or no West.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2012
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Melody of Moominvalley might be a game as committed to reformism and pacifism in addressing authority as its source material.
—Laurence Russell, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
In the 2000s, Mr. Erdogan’s blend of Islamism and reformism had Turkey knocking at the door of the European Union.
—Jason Farago, New York Times, 25 May 2023
The story seeks to spin a failure of reformism into a myth of incremental accountability—a myth that the police are interested in policing themselves.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2023
As a National Party loyalist De Klerk continued on Botha’s path of apartheid reformism, including through talks.
—Christi Van Der Westhuizen, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2021
All the polite, incremental reformism—of sensitivity trainings, tweaks to use-of-force rules, and appeals to better nature—was revealed as hollow in the face of the protesters’ justified fury, of their courage, of their pride.
—Molly Crabapple, The New York Review of Books, 9 June 2020
Macron’s implacable reformism stood in apparent contrast to the populist nationalism surging across the continent.
—Arthur Goldhammer, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2018
In other words Islamic reformism, radicalism, etc., are to some extent endogenous to Muslim societies, and probably an inevitable outcome of modernity, West or no West.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2012
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“Reformism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reformism. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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