rex
noun
king.
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rex
1 American
[r eks, reks]
/ rɛks, rɛks /
noun
Latin.
reges
plural
Rex
2
American
[reks]
/ rɛks /
noun
Rex
3
American
[reks]
/ rɛks /
noun
Rex
British
/ rɛks /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Rex
After Christus Rex, title of a publication put out by its founders
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"Gus" is one of the world's most complete T. rex skeletons -- with 183 fossilized bones -- and was discovered on a cattle ranch in South Dakota in 2021.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
They then spent a further three years documenting and reconstructing the T. rex back in the lab.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
The five most expensive dinosaurs sold at auction have all been since 2020, including Stan a T. rex sold for $31.8m in 2020 - the guide price had been $6-8m.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
One of the world's most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, nicknamed "Gus," was showcased Wednesday at Sotheby's auction house in New York ahead of its sale later this month.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
So the T. rex, which they named Banana Teeth, and Trip, the triceratops, each got their own room on the seventh floor.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
SAN CLEMENTE: Just trust Jaxson Rex to do anything and everything for improved Tritons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
I think his son Rex Jones chimed in.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
The board later voted not to remove him but Supervisor Rex Scott said the sheriff needed to repair a lack of trust in his leadership.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Woods, 61, doesn’t have the public profile of his predecessors, Rex Tillerson and Lee Raymond.
From Barron's ● Jun. 19, 2026
Then he saw Rex go tearing after the ball.
From "Eleven" by Tom Rogers
Vergil's own words would imply that his early effort centered about Aeneas' wars in Italy; the sixth Eclogue, Cum canerem reges et proelia, is rather explicit on this point.
From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney
On his refusing this honour, Mary wrote, or caused to be written, the following lines in Latin and French: Sunt comites, ducesque alii; sunt denique reges; Sethom dominum sit satis esse mihi.
From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir
The crine profuso and barba demissa of the reges crinitos, as the Merovingians were called, are often referred to by ancient chroniclers.
From Travels through France and Italy by Smollett, T. (Tobias)
Virgil had now found in his own age a motive for the composition of that epic poem which it had been his boyish ambition to attempt,— Cum canerem reges et proelia.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
The achivi is the people, and the McClellanists are the reges.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
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