as in corps
a military unit that is usually made of several large groups of soldiers (called battalions)
infantry/cavalry regiments
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Recent Examples of regiment
But the weather meant that the outing to the Army Air Corps (AAC) regiment in Wattisham, Suffolk, had to be postponed.
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Janine Henni, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Ukraine's special operations forces resisted a North Korean assault in Russia's Kursk region, killing 21 troops and wounding 40, according to Ukraine's 8th regiment.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
The Kremlin has supplied its regiments and brigades in Kursk with the best fiber-optic drones, which are controlling via signals traveling through thin cables—and can’t be jammed by traditional means.
—David Axe, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Nobody expected Army to be a modern-day powerhouse, but general football irrelevance and an annual broadside to morale was not an ideal regiment.
—Brian Hamilton, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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Janine Henni, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025
Ukraine's special operations forces resisted a North Korean assault in Russia's Kursk region, killing 21 troops and wounding 40, according to Ukraine's 8th regiment.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 22 Jan. 2025
The Kremlin has supplied its regiments and brigades in Kursk with the best fiber-optic drones, which are controlling via signals traveling through thin cables—and can’t be jammed by traditional means.
—David Axe, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Nobody expected Army to be a modern-day powerhouse, but general football irrelevance and an annual broadside to morale was not an ideal regiment.
—Brian Hamilton, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for regiment
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Rebuilding the passer corps will be done without Minshew.—
Tommy Tuberville,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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The war also gave the IRGC a taste for private enterprise, anticipating the economic dominance, notably in energy and infrastructure, that companies linked to the corps enjoy today.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Early Thursday morning, a Russian assault group with no fewer than 25 vehicles and potentially hundreds of troops attacked positions manned by the Ukrainian army’s 24th Mechanized Brigade around Pokrovsk, a fortress city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, 40 miles southwest of Chasiv Yar.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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This may include deploying peacekeeping troops to the country to stop Putin from invading again.—
Russel Honoré,
Newsweek,
6 Mar. 2025
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The 28-year-old has played as a wing and center in recent games, scoring her first try – powering through two tackles and running more than half the length of the field – in her second game with the Bears.—
George Ramsay,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2025
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The gadget has the two screens extending like wings off the center piece, which hosts the Magic Bay pogo connector.—
John Burek,
PCMAG,
2 Mar. 2025
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Candidates whose scenarios highlighted risks common within the company helped expose vulnerabilities in existing systems.—
Karl Moore,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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Then his allies acquired all major media companies and transformed them into state propaganda outlets.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2025
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But by high school Batista found acceptance, and a further welcome in the Junior R.O.T.C. program, becoming the battalion’s second-in-command.—
Jeff Truesdell,
People.com,
11 Feb. 2025
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Armen Sarkisyan, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and creator of a battalion for the leader's military, is reported to have been killed in a grenade blast at an elite residential building in Moscow on Monday.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Regiment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regiment. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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