regiment

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 Prince William and Princess Kate both returned to work on Wednesday, and William traveled to Suffolk to visit the Army Air Corps for the first time in his official royal role as Colonel-in-Chief of the regiments. Janine Henni, People.com, 5 June 2025 Most of the regiment did not regularly drill, and military discipline was extremely lax. Arkansas Online, 3 May 2025 The aim of the HQ raid was to render leaderless the Russian regiments and brigades responsible for attacks on islands in the wide Dnipro River. David Axe, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025 According to the outlet, William and Kate didn’t spend St. Patrick’s Day with the Irish Guards in 2020 because most of the regiment was deployed overseas. Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for regiment
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  • Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 June 2025
  • There is a long tradition of New York mayors mixing it up with the press corps.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 22 June 2025
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  • The United States met all these objectives by December 31, 2001, without deploying tens of thousands of ground troops.
    David A. Deptula, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • The Stop Trump’s Abuse of Power Act, revealed first to The Hill, comes after the Trump administration deployed hundreds of Marines and more than 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles earlier this month amid unrest over the president’s immigration agenda.
    Julia Manchester, The Hill, 23 June 2025
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  • This, along with composite materials, special coatings, wing design and other classified processes, make the B-2 difficult for even the most sophisticated defense systems to detect and track.
    Ellen Uchimiya, CBS News, 19 June 2025
  • Today is for the wings; tomorrow will be for the bigs.
    David Aldridge, New York Times, 19 June 2025
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  • The company has partnered with Barco, a global leader in medical imaging displays, and Blackford Analysis, owned by Bayer, to enable cloud-native deployment of DL Precise across large systems and OEM platforms.
    Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • Its launch into Credo marks the brand’s first full-scale supplement roll out into retail, according to the company.
    Emily Burns, Footwear News, 23 June 2025
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  • The picture is similar at the Fire Department, where the top ten each earned over $500,000, led by the battalion chief with $905,060.
    John Hart, Oc Register, 25 June 2025
  • There will also be six battalion chiefs on the scene, along with a division chief, a deputy chief and a chief of operations.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 June 2025

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“Regiment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regiment. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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