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More insight comes from a paradox noted after Corbyn became leader in 2015: Supporters hailed Corbyn as a renewer, but his convictions hadn’t altered one bit since the 1970s.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2020

He is regarded by many as a mujaddid, a once-in-a-century "renewer of the faith."

From Time Magazine Archive

No willing renewer, however, was Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co., the "Mellon Bank."

From Time Magazine Archive

He is not a "maker of new modes," but a "renewer of old treasure."

From Time Magazine Archive

In Belgium Verhaeren is above all the national poet, the poet of heaths, cities, dunes, and of the Flemish past, the great renewer of the national pride.

From ?mile Verhaeren by Zweig, Stefan