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Recent Examples of reigned
His father Henri, 70, reigned for 25 years, and Guillaume is likely to reign far longer, since Charles, the older of his two sons (and now heir to the throne) is just five.
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Vivienne Walt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Vivienne Walt, Time, 3 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reigned
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The autocratic czarist regime ruled with an iron hand and suppressed opposition through censorship, banishment, and executions.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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Litter is used for fertilizer in the watershed, and phosphorus from litter feeds algae in the river, the court has ruled.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Oct. 2025
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The case will move into a lengthy pretrial phase governed by the Classified Information Procedures Act, as prosecutors and defense lawyers battle over how to handle sensitive evidence.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Port allocations aren’t governed by the kind of federal rules that regulate airport dollars.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Reigned.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reigned. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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