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regiment

[rej-uh-muhnt, rej-uh-ment] / ˈrɛdʒ ə mənt, ˈrɛdʒ əˌmɛnt /
NOUN
corps
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The army crew named him Little Reg, short for regiment - after the parachute group Petherbridge is a member of.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The move could take years and would be costly since new infrastructure would likely be needed for the regiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

Rapamycin is a widely available immunosuppressant drug traditionally used as an anti-rejection regiment for organ transplant patients.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2026

Her former regiment highlighted her bravery when attending to an overturned vehicle in the Falklands that left multiple Welsh Guards injured – which won her a commendation award.

From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026

Finally she wore him down, and Valentina was allowed to stay with the all-male fighter pilot training regiment.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

The founder of the Geek Meet Club wanted to bring like-minded people together and exclude the regiments of fakes she says have undermined online dating.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

West of Cairo, Egypt’s capital, a beautifully tended cemetery, roses and all, carries the graves of many of Montgomery’s Eighth Army, their names and regiments carefully inscribed on the pink limestone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

The toll among African soldiers, according to Inpact, has been highest in regiments stationed in Donetsk, a region of eastern Ukraine that Russia has repeatedly tried and failed to seize.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

The Times often published the lists of their names and regiments, like a phantom roll call: the 121st Ohio, the 11th Indiana, the 29th Michigan, the 17th Kansas, the 10th Wisconsin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024

Soon the pilots and navigators of the 588th were flying a dozen bombing missions or more in a single night, far more than the men in the other Po-2 regiments.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

But the format is similar to that of other immersive shows, although here it is necessarily more regimented.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

He changed his mind, however: “I said, ‘I’m going join a club so everything can be regimented.’

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025

It is why detached observers are led to the conclusion City's football is regimented.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025

But the regimented way of conservatory learning was an affront to Kilmer’s wily country-boy sensibilities.

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025

Mrs. Richardson had, her entire existence, lived an orderly and regimented life.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

When my father was a small boy in Galveston, Texas, with no siblings to play with or anything like a helicopter parent regimenting his time, he roamed the inscrutable world of adults all around him.

From New York Times ● Sep. 22, 2021

He began obsessively working out and regimenting his meals.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019

Harrison was the disciplinarian who drummed into Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt, the Neville brothers and everybody else coming through United’s system the importance of regimenting, hard graft and accepting orders.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2015

In lassoing and regimenting the muse, fiction apps evaporate some of writing’s pain, but also some of its glory.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2014

I am not now speaking of the popular idea of regimenting people’s thought; I’m speaking of the implicit, almost unconscious, or pre-conscious, assumptions and ideals upon which whole nations and races act and live.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright




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