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regiment

[rej-uh-muhnt, rej-uh-ment] / ˈrɛdʒ ə mənt, ˈrɛdʒ əˌmɛnt /
NOUN
corps
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Hooley, from Wallingford in Oxfordshire, joined the regiment in June 2016 after completing his training at the Infantry Training Centre Catterick in North Yorkshire.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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

They got separated from the fighter planes of another regiment that were supposed to escort them and provide them with protection from enemy fighters.

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

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

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

The pipers' tunes were used to identify different regiments.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025

The darkened nighttime airfields were dangerous to people in the air as well as on the ground, but there wasn’t anything the night bomber regiments could do about it.

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

By the time Franklin Bean graduated, he was leagues more regimented — and more confident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2025

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

From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2025

As an Army cook, he’d learned to live a strictly regimented routine.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

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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