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Recent Examples of regnant
Since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, anti-Chinese sentiment has become not merely trendy, but politically regnant.
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Sam Thielman, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Her opponent, nonprofit leader and billionaire's son Josh Kraft, and who's campaigning against what he's characterized as Wu's regnant leadership style.
—Mike Deehan, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
Within many of our most crucial institutions, suppositions that would have been considered the height of lunacy even a few years ago have become regnant overnight.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 27 June 2023
This was not always the case in Japan — there have been eight empresses regnant throughout history — but the Imperial Household Law introduced in 1947 restricts the throne to the male line of succession and requires women who marry outside of the family to leave.
—Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
The trope tends to elegize artists who are perceived to be ahead of their time or otherwise inimical to regnant conventions.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
Their leaders speak with a regnant air, hammering the notion that their return to power is all but inevitable.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2021
The people that once boldly threw off the tyranny of a distant monarch now seem to be meekly submitting to the diktats of a regnant class and ideology that tolerate less independence of thought and action than King George III did.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2021
Sam Thielman, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Her opponent, nonprofit leader and billionaire's son Josh Kraft, and who's campaigning against what he's characterized as Wu's regnant leadership style.
—Mike Deehan, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
Within many of our most crucial institutions, suppositions that would have been considered the height of lunacy even a few years ago have become regnant overnight.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 27 June 2023
This was not always the case in Japan — there have been eight empresses regnant throughout history — but the Imperial Household Law introduced in 1947 restricts the throne to the male line of succession and requires women who marry outside of the family to leave.
—Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
The trope tends to elegize artists who are perceived to be ahead of their time or otherwise inimical to regnant conventions.
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
Their leaders speak with a regnant air, hammering the notion that their return to power is all but inevitable.
—Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2021
The people that once boldly threw off the tyranny of a distant monarch now seem to be meekly submitting to the diktats of a regnant class and ideology that tolerate less independence of thought and action than King George III did.
—Gerard Baker, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regnant
Adjective
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The first indication that dark energy may not be as dominant as previously thought emerged courtesy of the first results from DESI in Spring 2024.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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While Kalshi and Polymarket remain the dominant players, other challengers are emerging.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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So, in the UAE, we're partnered with Abu Dhabi, and there's two funds that have invested Mubadala, which is one of the sovereign wealth funds and IHC, another one of the sovereign wealth funds.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Oct. 2025
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More recently, the firm advised the government on many of its international bond sales and helped finance the sovereign wealth fund’s $55 billion purchase of Electronic Arts.—
Matthew Martin,
semafor.com,
24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Despite the concerns around African democracy, Afrobarometer’s annual African Insights survey shows voting in elections remains the predominant form of political and civic engagement, with nearly three-quarters of respondents voting in their country’s elections last year.—
Yinka Adegoke,
semafor.com,
27 Oct. 2025
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That confident tight-wire act, with its time shifts and various mini-characterizations, was a useful precedence for her here as the predominant presence in this three-performer, intermissionless piece.—
Christopher Smith,
Oc Register,
14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This was the weekend when Liverpool finally won a league match, Arsenal continued in supreme form at the top, Wolves sacked Vitor Pereira and Chelsea earned their annual victory at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
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The supreme athleticism is still there.—
Joseph Dycus,
Mercury News,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Regnant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regnant. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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