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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
  • Weinstein was first convicted in early 2020 of third-degree rape involving Mann, but a New York state appeals court overturned the conviction in 2024, ruling that the judge had improperly allowed testimony about allegations not directly tied to the case.
    Adam Reiss, NBC news, 15 May 2026
  • After a private discussion, which lasted about 10 minutes, the two leaders walked through the gardens of Zhongnanhai, a walled government compound where top officials from the ruling Communist Party live and work.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 15 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
  • Federation Studios co-managing director Marco Chimenz has left after nearly three years.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The new generation of leaders now hold almost 50% of the European firm, according to Benjamin Cordonnier, who was last year appointed as co-managing partner alongside Judith Charpentier.
    Swetha Gopinath, Bloomberg, 9 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 21 May. 2026.

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