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reigning

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verb

present participle of reign
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Verb
  • At the same time, only one in five companies has a mature model for governing autonomous AI agents, even as agentic AI usage is poised to rise sharply, per the same report.
    Shiv Kaushik, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Reliance on external infrastructure therefore risks leaving African countries dependent not only on foreign technology providers, but on foreign legal frameworks governing sensitive health information.
    Francisca Mutapi, semafor.com, 18 May 2026
Adjective
  • According to those close to the family, József was extremely controlling and would often make terrifying threats.
    Maddie Garfinkle, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026
  • In girl friend groups, one of the girls is a bit more controlling, a bit more sassy, and a bit more precocious than the other ones.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The spiny, long-legged, and often reviled cockroach has become an unlikely symbol of dissent among India’s Gen Z, in a sharp rebuke to the ruling establishment in the world’s largest democracy.
    Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 22 May 2026
  • Shoutout to Focus Features’ Obsession, which has been ruling the box office in its weekdays, beating Michael on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 22 May 2026
Adjective
  • Even Germany, with many former Nazis regnant in public life, and unabashedly fascist Spain could be accommodated in the West’s anti-totalitarian community, helped by historians such as Ernst Nolte, who argued that Nazism and fascism were simply consequences of Bolshevism.
    Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • The development comes as global health officials continue monitoring the rare hantavirus outbreak tied to the MV Hondius, which has sickened multiple passengers.
    Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
  • Five years from now, monitoring your brain health passively and continuously will seem as normal as tracking your heart rate.
    Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
Adjective
  • There are 29 senior players listed in the first-team squad on the club website, plus several who are on loan or have signed pre-agreements to join this summer.
    Cerys Jones, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • Amanda Lee Myers is a senior crime reporter who covers the death penalty, cold case investigations and breaking news for USA TODAY.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 21 May 2026
Adjective
  • Missoni’s board of directors will see Barnaba Ravanne, co-founder and co-managing partner of FSI, take the role of chair.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Vogue, 22 May 2026
  • Federation Studios co-managing director Marco Chimenz has left after nearly three years.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Kate Langston, a supervisory special agent with the Diplomatic Security Service, the law-enforcement arm of the State Department, first heard about Djena in the fall of 2016, a few weeks after Djena fled the Toures’ house.
    Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, New Yorker, 18 May 2026
  • The Fidelity Youth Account is the better pick if your goal is to give your teen genuine ownership and autonomy over their investing decisions, with you in a supervisory role rather than as a co-pilot.
    Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 13 May 2026
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“Reigning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reigning. Accessed 24 May. 2026.

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