Definition of "reigning" []

• Currently ruling or holding a position. (adjective)
• Present participle of reign. (verb)

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• "I mean, who knows what calamities await us if we “go too far” in reigning them in."
• "HMOs have done a decent job in reigning in health care inflation, at least until recently."
• "Since Sen Mitchell and the GOP do not want govermental intervention in reigning in the "evil doers" in the banking sysytem who do the GOP want to assume the role?"