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regiment

[rej-uh-muhnt, rej-uh-ment] / ˈrɛdʒ ə mənt, ˈrɛdʒ əˌmɛnt /
NOUN
corps
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He then conducted an inspection of the troops and the colour of the regiment was then "trooped", or carried, through the ranks of foot guards.

From BBC Jun. 13, 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

"Lucy was first on the scene and worked relentlessly to treat casualties and ensure every Guardsman was accounted for and safe," the regiment said.

From BBC Feb. 21, 2026

Irina called it a “nightmare” bringing “shame” on the whole regiment.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

As a senior member of the royal family, the prince is affiliated to a number of military regiments.

From BBC Dec. 20, 2025

A tally of once-common British birds, Mr. Nicolson writes, “reads like a list of regiments decimated in battle.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 5, 2025

Shoulder badges indicated that the remains could include soldiers who had fought for two Scottish regiments - the Gordon Highlanders and the Cameron Highlanders.

From BBC Sep. 26, 2025

Yevgeniya Zhigulenko, who eventually flew with the 588th Night Bomber Aviation Regiment as both a navigator and a pilot, said that Marina told her regiments about a conversation she’d had with Stalin.

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

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

I feel when I am boxed into a regimented way then I am not able to express myself in the same way.

From BBC Mar. 24, 2025

‘John Brown’s Body’ is a march, and as such you would expect its rhythm to be regimented and precise, with drummers keeping everything in strict order.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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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