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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. 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regnant
Adjective
  • The past two years made clear that Israel, with U.S. help, is the dominant military force.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 28 June 2025
  • The 22-year-old is fresh off a dominant senior season and is widely regarded as one of the top quarterback prospects of his respective class.
    Kevin McCormick, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • The African Union is set to launch its own credit ratings agency this year to help challenge the establishment with additional transparency for African sovereign ratings.
    Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 1 July 2025
  • The company’s pre-IPO investors include Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek.
    Zinnia Lee, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Rivera is especially excited by the National Music Theater Conference this year since truly original work is developed there in contrast to the predominant commercial theater trend of basing musicals closely on classic movies or novels.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 June 2025
  • That is clearly what happened in this redistricting in Louisiana where race was the predominant factor used to draw congressional boundaries.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
Adjective
  • One such fatwa was the one issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the previous supreme leader, against author Salman Rushdie, who was stabbed multiple times at the Chautauqua Institution in southwestern New York in 2022.
    Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 30 June 2025
  • The supreme leader’s silence had sparked speculation about his whereabouts, with some Iranians even questioning his health.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 27 June 2025

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“Regnant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regnant. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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