regiment

noun

Definition of regimentnext
as in corps
a military unit that is usually made of several large groups of soldiers (called battalions) infantry/cavalry regiments

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Recent Examples of regiment The curators know who was in the regiment — Company B, 2nd Regiment of the Maryland Eastern Shore Volunteers — based on military records. — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026 One was to Jamestown, Virginia, to help with an archeological dig from the American Revolution, even discovering a uniform button from a French regiment on the last day. — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026 The regiment's commander, Yevhen Karas, said his unit had also taken part hours earlier in the strike on the Wildberries warehouse, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Moscow, during one of Ukraine’s largest attacks on Russia to date. — ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026 The Buffalo Soldiers were the first peacetime, all-Black regiment in the Army. — Angela George, Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 13 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for regiment
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  1. corps
  2. troop
  3. wing
  4. company
  5. battalion
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  • The Chargers’ offense, already weakened by a series of injuries to its offensive line and receiving corps, struggled mightily, recording their second-lowest output of the season at 259 total yards.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The receiving corps took a hit in Vegas, as Rashee Rice left in the first quarter with an apparent hamstring injury and Tyquan Thornton appeared to seriously injure his ankle after a 45-yard reception that set up the go-ahead touchdown.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of corps
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  • The majority of about 50,000 American troops in Japan under the bilateral security pact are on the small but strategically important southern island.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Rows of look-alike chorines would position their limbs in formation to create enormous kaleidoscopic designs, functioning in precision like an all-blonde, semi-nude, female Marine troop.
    — David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of troop
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  • Angle of attack refers to the angle between an aircraft wing and the airflow approaching it.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The arthropod group includes animals that are without a backbone or any bones at all, strictly speaking, their bodies being encased in a ringed, exterior tegument and having legs and, sometimes, wings.
    — Jeanna Bryner, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of wing
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  • Nguyen responded by starting POPS Worldwide, an entertainment company which produces, licenses, distributes, and monetizes digital content across platforms like YouTube and Facebook.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Sanders, one of the left’s leading critics of the AI industry, went a step beyond profit-sharing by suggesting this summer that its companies surrender half of their stock to the government.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of company
Noun
  • Mazor said the military recognized the scale of settler violence and has sent additional battalions to the West Bank to contain it.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026
  • The East Palestine fire battalion chief, who is also the Columbiana County Emergency Management deputy director, and his colleagues across various neighboring agencies quickly realized the magnitude of the event.
    — Lauren Linder, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of battalion

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