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control

[kuhn-trohl] / kənˈtroʊl /






Usage

What are other ways to say control? Control is either power or influence applied to the complete and successful direction or manipulation of persons or things: to be in control of a project. Authority is a power or right, usually because of rank or office, to issue commands and to punish for violations: to have authority over subordinates. Influence is a personal and unofficial power derived from deference of others to one's character, ability, or station; it may be exerted unconsciously or may operate through persuasion: to have influence over one's friends.

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“If you bring that harness in-house and control it, you’re baking in a lot more business resilience,” Pan said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

It gives you more control over the timing of those distributions.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

"I didn't want to take strong medication which made me feel ill, not in control and often so confused that I felt I'd dementia," she said.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

An Arab diplomat in Damascus told AFP at the time that a joint operations room based in Jordan would follow issues including security coordination and border control.

From Barron's Aug. 23, 2026

I look away, try to regain control of my heart, which is suddenly jerking around inside my chest.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Most of the Brown family have joined Wolf Pen, which has a seven-member board of its own that decides how the shares it controls are voted.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

People with HAE have a defect in the gene that controls a blood protein called C1 inhibitor.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

It’s remarkable, though, how passive investing’s edge has persisted now that it controls more than half of U.S. fund assets.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

The group, which controls swathes of Yemen and has been at war with Riyadh for over a decade, has declared a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia and attacked ships in the Red Sea.

From Barron's Aug. 20, 2026

Natasha Meklin, a navigator who’d retrained as a pilot, was flying one of her first combat missions at the controls of her Po-2, with Lida Loshmanova as her navigator.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Those loans passed through entities controlled by four businesses—ABS Capital, Amistad Financial, Bradford Allen and Hudson Trading—which federal prosecutors have zeroed in on, the Journal reported.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Another Brown family entity controlled 18 million shares.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Insurance regulators and federal investigators are looking into whether certain financial transactions between various entities controlled by Walter were properly disclosed to investors and compiled with regulations designed to protect them.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

By exposing the previously invisible steps that occur during ultrafast transformations, scientists may move closer to designing materials whose properties can be deliberately and efficiently controlled with light.

From Science Daily Aug. 21, 2026

In fact, their only images have been produced under carefully controlled laboratory conditions that tell us more about the experimenter than they do about art.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

“Why is IT and the administration controlling how I teach successful writing instruction?”

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

In 2012, Soon-Shiong joined hedge-fund titan Steve Cohen in trying to buy the Dodgers, with Cohen as the controlling partner.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

In rats, for example, excess histidine can be converted into histamine, which activates brain receptors involved in controlling food intake.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

Jerry included instructions to vote Jeanie as the controlling owner in perpetuity, a provision that has led to nearly constant conflict in the years since.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced another group of Commensals in the controlling offices of the Thirty-Three.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin




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