as in overhaul
the act, process, or result of improving something by removing flaws, problems, etc.
They're calling for a complete reformation of the healthcare system.
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Recent Examples of reformation
He’s just gone through such a reformation, through his journey with Christ and everything [the NFL brings] too.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
Still, the billionaire, who has become highly involved in U.S. and global politics, has also supported the overhaul and reformation of the H-1B system in the past.
—Dylan Butts,victoria Yeo, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2025
And as far as music is concerned, reformation doesn’t really come into it so much.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
The process observed involved stages of turbulence generation, rope merging, equilibrium collapse, and reformation.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2025
Still, the billionaire, who has become highly involved in U.S. and global politics, has also supported the overhaul and reformation of the H-1B system in the past.
—Dylan Butts,victoria Yeo, CNBC, 29 Sep. 2025
And as far as music is concerned, reformation doesn’t really come into it so much.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 29 Aug. 2025
The process observed involved stages of turbulence generation, rope merging, equilibrium collapse, and reformation.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reformation
Noun
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Your values may be undergoing a complete overhaul.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
15 Feb. 2026
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Soto and Lindor both agree the overhaul has made the team better.—
Abbey Mastracco,
New York Daily News,
15 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Like Social Security and Medicare reform and the massive national debt, which is at $38 trillion and counting because Washington refuses to cut spending, despite record amounts of revenue flooding into the Treasury.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
17 Feb. 2026
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He was arrested in 2021 while urging Congress to protect voting rights, and led a march for criminal justice reform that same year.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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The city of Hollywood approved a controversial proposal to build a religious ritual bath in a residential neighborhood following a full redesign of the building.—
Lauren Costantino
February 11,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
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Last year, after the federal government took over the redesign of Penn Station, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy floated the idea of naming the station after his boss.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Reformation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reformation. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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