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Example Sentences
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Long have well-meaning, enlightened Westerners assumed that the liberal values regnant in their democracies would arrest any attempt to revive antisemitism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
"We've managed to gather portraits from private collections and a public collection of the seven queens regnant," Francis Christie, deputy chairman of Sotheby's UK and Ireland, told Reuters.
From Reuters ● May 27, 2022
He also said Roseanne Barr and Louis C.K. had been treated excessively harshly by the regnant Hollywood climate toward comedy.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 14, 2021
The counterargument is that the regnant economic system has brought millions of people out of poverty, has allowed women more economic opportunities, etc.
From Slate ● Jan. 24, 2018
He was magnificently befuddled, and for the first time in three months he was the regnant intoxicated ideal of what a gentleman and a soldier should be.
From The Co-Citizens by Corra Harris
