How to Use reformer in a Sentence

reformer

noun
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  • Trump is one of those who hail the crown prince as a reformer.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The son, with his English wife, was meant to be a reformer.
    — Aatish Taseer, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2020
  • One side of the coin being the reformer, the other side of the coin being the autocrat.
    — CBS News, 6 Jan. 2021
  • There were hopes for him as a liberal reformer, and there still are.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The president campaigned as a reformer of the welfare state, the cost of which has led to large budget deficits.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • Rouhani, of course, was no moderate, nor even a reformer.
    — Richard Goldberg, National Review, 3 Aug. 2021
  • For the past 12 years, Gill has seen himself as a pragmatic reformer.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Some members of the group were skeptical that an employee of the old guard could be a reformer.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Here The brand is most well-known for their Pilates reformers machines.
    — Lily Wohlner, Women's Health, 12 July 2023
  • This is a 180-degree turn from the reformer who once spoke with emotion about his worries for his black son at the hands of police.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • Mental health reformer Lucy Wairimu Mukuria will join Green for the session.
    — al, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Medvedev was once seen as a potential reformer with a softer touch than Putin.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2024
  • There were other early signs that Putin was no reformer.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Even then, Calvin Coolidge was a zealous reformer of taxing and spending.
    — Christopher Demuth, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Alan Shaw came to Chicago last week casting himself as a reformer.
    — John Lippert, Chicago Tribune, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Just before White’s demise, a set of reformers decided to take him on.
    — Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • This is done through different movements on a mat or on a reformer machine.
    — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Pilates can be done atop big, specialized machines, like the reformer and the cadillac.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 14 June 2021
  • In 1990, Russia was led by a friendly reformer, Mikhail Gorbachev.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Chief Davis has climbed to the top of the Memphis Police Department as a reformer, but this case may test how deeply her department has changed.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Like Villanueva in 2018, Luna pitches himself as a reformer and a man of the people.
    — Connor Sheetsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Cuoco also found ways to use the Pilates reformer without using her hands, stepping on and off a wedge at its base.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Pressure from reformers closed the barbaric wheels at the end of the nineteenth century.
    — Maria Laurino, The New Republic, 29 June 2023
  • Elected last year as a reformer, Lightfoot already has some blotches on her own record.
    — Mick Dumke, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Against that backdrop, French’s death sounded all the more tragic in tributes that described her as a police reformer’s dream.
    — Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Méndez Ruiz didn’t view them as reformers, but as leftists.
    — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023
  • He is portrayed in the Western media as a liberal reformer.
    — Krithika Varagur, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The paradox for Díaz-Canel, who is said by people who know him personally to want to be a reformer, is that he is boxed in by circumstances.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 22 July 2021
  • For years, reformers have inched the state toward less reliance on money bail – a system that lets rich defendants pay their way out of jail while poor defendants sit behind bars.
    — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 2 June 2024
  • Its surge is no surprise: Pilates, a low-impact workout that embraces repetitive movements on a mat or a reformer machine to tone muscles, can lead to transformational results.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 19 July 2024

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