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regent

[ree-juhnt] / ˈri dʒənt /
NOUN
director
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When his father became ill in 1990, the crown prince became regent.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

His son, Crown Prince Haakon, 53, has been serving as regent while his father is on leave.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

“The disappearance of the regent honeyeater’s song is a cultural issue, too,” Mr. Hoffman writes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

In 2023, he was appointed a regent of the University of California by Gavin Newsom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

Reverend Harris was warm and friendly, and treated the regent with great deference.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

In 2021, the school’s board of regents approved the building of the 163,000-square-foot Leinweber Computer Science and Information Building.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

In his farewell address to the regents that October, he warned against allowing the Smithsonian to become seen as affiliated with one party or ideological bent.

From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2026

Pro-testing professors have dominated public comment at earlier regents meetings, pointing to all eight Ivy League campuses, Caltech and Stanford, which reintroduced testing after dropping it around the pandemic over test access and equity concerns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Bunch said his official response to the regents will “demonstrate that much of what was in the White House report was a mischaracterization of the Smithsonian and of the National Museum of American History.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The expense of fending off Harvard awakened the University of California regents to the presence of a prodigy on their payroll.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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