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regiment

[rej-uh-muhnt, rej-uh-ment] / ˈrɛdʒ ə mənt, ˈrɛdʒ əˌmɛnt /
NOUN
corps
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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

Restaurant owners here, whose business suffers whenever the regiment is mobilized for exercises, fear they won’t survive a permanent withdrawal of troops.

From The Wall Street Journal May 13, 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

At this moment, Booth could safely ride past an entire regiment of Union cavalry.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

The relief depicts an actual event: Shaw, scion of a prominent abolitionist family, is on horseback leading one of the conflict’s first black regiments off to the front.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 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

They are accompanied by serving soldiers from their loved ones’ old regiments.

From BBC Nov. 14, 2024

Like so many other Po-2 night bomber regiments on the front, their strategy was to keep the German troops awake all night.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

What Mr. Barragán finds in Nigeria is not the regimented underworld that the U.N. summit’s language implied.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

"It was such a good team to be part of. Flower and Strauss were tough, and that regime was very regimented, but we had the time of our lives there."

From BBC Nov. 28, 2025

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

The regimented routine of many children, all doing the same thing at once, gave her a feeling of safety.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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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