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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The outcome was a political victory for Mayor Tyrone Garner, who campaigned as a reformer and is now in the third year of his first term.
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Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2024
Milk’s Pasteurized Image Industrial milk producers, along with a growing cadre of health professionals and reformers, eventually turned to pasteurization to deliver pure milk at an affordable cost.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
The High School of the Future (in 1917) In 1917, a Progressive education reformer surveyed the high school landscape and looked to the future.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Criminal-justice reformers in Pennsylvania still speak warmly of Fetterman.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
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Bill Lukitsch, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2024
Milk’s Pasteurized Image Industrial milk producers, along with a growing cadre of health professionals and reformers, eventually turned to pasteurization to deliver pure milk at an affordable cost.
—Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
The High School of the Future (in 1917) In 1917, a Progressive education reformer surveyed the high school landscape and looked to the future.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
Criminal-justice reformers in Pennsylvania still speak warmly of Fetterman.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024
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reformer
noun
re·form·er
ri-ˈfȯr-mər
: one that works for reform
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