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  • noun Plural form of Regent.

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Examples

  • The Culture Show 7pm, BBC2The amiable Grayson Perry presents this one-off Culture Show special from the Frieze art fair in Regents Park, which isn't only about the business of buying and selling art, but plays host to a number of specially-commissioned pieces, too.

    Tonight's TV highlights Rebecca Nicholson 2010

  • The Montana State Board of Regents is at our college today.

    View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006

  • I accepted a short-term Regents professorship in journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, conducting a graduate seminar, “The Impact of Television on Society.”

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • I accepted a short-term Regents professorship in journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, conducting a graduate seminar, “The Impact of Television on Society.”

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • I accepted a short-term Regents professorship in journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, conducting a graduate seminar, “The Impact of Television on Society.”

    Staying Tuned Daniel Schorr 2001

  • The "Regents" -- who had ponied up $250,000 or more -- were invited inside Cheney's house for photo ops with the veep.

    Periscope 2007

  • He repeated making the Honor Roll last November, he got a 98 on a midterm Regents exam in January, and he got a 95 on the only Regents exams he took this June.

    Willy's Three Year ADHD/Bipolar Recovery Story 2007

  • Anyway, we’ve already got a very beautiful central London in Regents Park just opposite Lord’s cricket ground; and there’s a huge Sikh temple in Neasden, north London.

    Mondomosque « BuzzMachine 2005

  • It is therefore with considerable pride that I can offer proof for one project: a program for at-risk high school students called the Regents Academy that the Binghamton City School District started in 2010 and invited me to help design.

    David Sloan Wilson: Proof That Policies Informed by Evolution Can Succeed Where Other Perspectives Have Failed David Sloan Wilson 2011

  • Alas, yes someone --namely the Regents of the University of California-- gave Chemerinsky money which he used to write that sort of drivel.

    Chemerinsky's idea of "Enhancing Government." Ann Althouse 2008

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