reigned (over)

verb

past tense of reign (over)
as in lorded (it over)

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  1. dominated
  2. dictated
  3. oppressed
  4. mastered
  5. managed
  6. regulated
  7. administered
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  • Domestically, the group dominated the awards circuit during their rookie year – earning the Next Generation Award at the 2026 Golden Disc Awards.
    — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The pharmaceutical giant has sought out new avenues of success with cancer-treatment drugs and to catch up with its competitors, which have dominated the market for weight-loss medications.
    — Sam Jacobs, Time, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of dominated
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  • Timed around the natural breaks in the soccer calendar, dictated by international fixtures and the pause for Christmas, each leg will have its own mini table, including prizes for the winners.
    — Dominic Preston, The Verge, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Of all the episodes, that was the one most dictated by location.
    — Derek Lawrence, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of dictated
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  • And women, being oppressed in that way in that realm, have been able nonetheless to engage with the more emotional maturity.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Man oppressed woman legally, economically, socially, educationally, morally, professionally and religiously.
    — Brian DeLay, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
Definition of oppressed
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  • Even the most dependent of the United States’ allies have mastered the arts of foot-dragging, leash-slipping, and lobbying Washington.
    — MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor who became chair after his 2004 Presidential campaign, told me that part of the job is learning how to tune out the complaints, something Martin has apparently not yet mastered.
    — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of mastered
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  • Harston is also one of the Screaming Marys, a performance collective managed by Screaming Alley, which regularly hosts workshops in everything from burlesque to lip-syncing – and previously did Jackson’s drag king course.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Those came when Madrid’s Champions League match at Benfica (then managed by Mourinho) was stopped after the Brazilian alleged opposition winger Gianluca Prestianni racially abused him.
    — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of managed
Verb
  • Moreover, many of the road trip’s corporate sponsors—including Boeing, United Airlines, Royal Caribbean, Toyota, Shell, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Lyft—are regulated by the department Duffy oversees.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • At the same time, researchers have begun to ask whether autonomous clinical AI should be licensed and regulated more like clinicians than conventional medical devices.
    — Arya Rao, STAT, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of regulated
Verb
  • The study involved a personalized cancer vaccine called Intismeran, produced by Merck and Moderna, administered in combination with Merck’s cancer immunotherapy Keytruda.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 19 Aug. 2026
  • On Wednesday, Colorado released results from the Colorado Measures of Academic Success (CMAS), PSAT and SAT tests administered to public school students across the state this past spring.
    — Anna Alejo, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of administered
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