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Recent Examples of regnant
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.
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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
Good luck with that: With too few exceptions, the Obama–Biden theory of Iran is the regnant Democratic theory of Iran.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 19 Mar. 2022
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
The regnant ideology never cites real-world examples.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 19 Sep. 2020
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
Good luck with that: With too few exceptions, the Obama–Biden theory of Iran is the regnant Democratic theory of Iran.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 19 Mar. 2022
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
The regnant ideology never cites real-world examples.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 19 Sep. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regnant
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The first 27 operational satellites for Amazon's Kuiper broadband network lifted off from Florida's Space Coast on Monday evening, the opening salvo in a challenge to SpaceX's dominant Starlink global Internet service.—
Alex Goy,
ArsTechnica,
29 Apr. 2025
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In deep-red states, Trump remains a dominant force.—
Mohammed Soliman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Apr. 2025
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Unlike most of football’s recent risers, Glimt’s ascent has not coincided with a takeover from a billionaire or sovereign wealth fund.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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Spanning nearly two decades of work, the exhibition, currently on view at The Whitney Museum of American Art is an assemblage of close to 50 portraits that reimagine the American realist tradition by centering Black subjects in moments of stillness, style, and sovereign presence.—
Najha Zigbi-Johnson,
Essence,
30 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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So the predominant number of that 3,500 is from the Civil War.—
Stephen Humphries,
Christian Science Monitor,
30 Apr. 2025
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Schiava was for a long while the predominant grape of AA, yet it was not held in high regard.—
John Mariani,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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But the Liberals handled this with supreme competence.—
Daniel Block,
The Atlantic,
29 Apr. 2025
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Federal courts dismissed Atlanta case but lawmakers call rulings 'backwards' Court decisions dismissing the Atlanta case focused on the Constitution's Supremacy Clause, which holds that federal law is supreme above state law.—
Bart Jansen,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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“Regnant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regnant. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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