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regent

[ree-juhnt] / ˈri dʒənt /
NOUN
director
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He entered hospital on 17 August and his son became regent, taking over his activities.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

When his father became ill in 1990, the crown prince became regent.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 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

The regent left early on Monday, and by late morning we were ready to go.

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

Pressure on the regents to quickly decide on the future of the SAT has grown since early this summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

In 1945 the regents had finally addressed the medical school’s hostility to this research by creating a Division of Medical Physics within the Department of Physics.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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