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regiment

[rej-uh-muhnt, rej-uh-ment] / ˈrɛdʒ ə mənt, ˈrɛdʒ əˌmɛnt /
NOUN
corps
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The court heard the father of nine completed three tours of Northern Ireland in the 1990s for the Army, where he boxed for his regiment, and until recently ran a scaffolding and landscaping business.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

The officer, the second highest ranking in special forces at the time, said another factor in the decision was that evidence had in part come via a rival special forces regiment.

From BBC May 28, 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

Coming on top of the victory at Stalingrad, the honor of being made a Guards regiment must have been a fine boost for the night bombers’ morale.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

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

There were hundreds of Soviet flight regiments in 1941.

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

Without playing amateur psychologist, I wonder if she found love so scary because her background as a classically-trained musician required her to be disciplined and regimented from an early age?

From BBC May 2, 2026

The walls of these rooms accomplish a kind of muting of her aura, a place where veneration feels austere or regimented by bureaucracy.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 29, 2025

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

From Salon Apr. 2, 2025

I no longer sit stiff-necked, straight- backed, feet regimented side by side on the floor, eyes at the salute.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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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