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regent

[ree-juhnt] / ˈri dʒənt /
NOUN
director
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The 26-member Board of Regents has one voting student regent and one nonvoting student regent-designate, who trains for a year before taking the voting seat when the prior member cycles off.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

Zhou said her peers rely on the student regent post to raise concerns about policing, student workers and student services.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2026

It was only blocked after pushback from USC and Michigan, where one regent branded the deal a “payday loan.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

West Bandung regent Jeje Ritchie Ismail said his party had declared the mass poisoning in Cipongkor "an extraordinary event so that handling can be faster and more comprehensive".

From BBC Sep. 25, 2025

I wonder if I can add youth to the queen's organs, so she can live forever and Sophia will never have to become regent queen.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

Any change would require a vote by the regents, who have final say over both the tests and the courses.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

“I can see the regents being surprised that what they read in the newspapers about the testing debate is no longer true,” Stryker said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

During his three-year reign, the boy king was shielded from real power by a triumvirate of regents and advisers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

But with a forceful push from then-UC President Janet Napolitano, regents who had been reluctant to remove the SAT switched gears to unanimously vote to phase out testing and explore creating a UC-specific exam.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

On campus, he would be seen as the outstanding villain of the affair, and not without reason: at his behest, the regents would fire thirty-one nonsigners in 1950.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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