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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
Interfaith friendships in India are not as uncommon as the regnant political discourse might suggest.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2020
This part of the regalia being inductive of supreme political power, has never been placed in the hands of any but kings or queens regnant.
From Coronation Anecdotes by Giles Gossip
