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reigning

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verb

present participle of reign
Recent Examples of Synonyms for reigning
Adjective
  • Over two years later, in May 2024, Rigby was sentenced to 20 months in prison (suspended for two years) after pleading guilty to coercive and controlling behavior.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The show’s other villains are its husbands and boyfriends, who are either very controlling or just downright shady.
    Anna Tingley, Variety, 12 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Within many of our most crucial institutions, suppositions that would have been considered the height of lunacy even a few years ago have become regnant overnight.
    Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 27 June 2023
  • This was not always the case in Japan — there have been eight empresses regnant throughout history — but the Imperial Household Law introduced in 1947 restricts the throne to the male line of succession and requires women who marry outside of the family to leave.
    Emily Krauser, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
Adjective
  • She’s poised to hand an instrument to a senior doctor in the ER.
    Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 10 Nov. 2024
  • In the first half, Keith tossed two TDs to senior Elise Kung, including one for 49 yards on a deep throw.
    Dan Albano, Orange County Register, 9 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • Between 1995 and 2022, there were only 308 successful kidney transplants in Myanmar, according to ruling junta chief Min Aung Hlaing’s office.
    Teele Rebane, CNN, 30 Aug. 2024
  • Mark Chenoweth, President and Chief Legal Officer, of the New Civil Liberties Alliance that argued the case before the Supreme Court, said in a statement the ruling remedied government overreach.
    Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 14 June 2024
Adjective
  • The question is whether high-level career officials will follow the best practices of civil-military relations and give their candid advice to Trump and his senior political appointees even when that advice is unwanted.
    Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Senior government officials from these nations are converging for high-level training aimed at securing their borders.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The firm is backed by GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund.
    Chris Morris, Fortune Asia, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Since then, Ivanka Trump’s husband and former senior Trump advisor has raised $2 billion from Saudi Arabia’s $925 billion sovereign wealth fund and more than $400 million in investments from wealth funds in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
    Danielle Chemtob, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The processing of ballots in Fulton County, one of Georgia’s main Democratic strongholds, continues to vex her.
    Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
  • There are many types of GI diseases and two main categories: functional and structural.
    Mark Gurarie, Health, 2 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • One search through artificial intelligence chatbots generates an exponential amount of 25 times more electricity than a Google search and will become the predominant energy consumer across several countries in a mere number of years.
    Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Beijing is used to being the predominant external powerbroker with respect to the North and aims first and foremost to maintain balance and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
    Daniel DePetris, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024

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“Reigning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reigning. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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