controlled

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"I fully trust the safety measures that have been taken with this, they have controlled it very well," says Lupe López, a woman who was buying pork.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

In a national randomized controlled trial, they found that a short-term, calorie-restricted eating plan led to meaningful improvements in both symptoms and biological markers in people with mild-to-moderate Crohn's disease.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

This means scramblers or quadbikes will only be used for agricultural purposes and for controlled licenced sports events.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Early on, elevators were operated by attendants who controlled speed and stopping manually.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Ed Lewis’s discovery of master-regulatory genes that controlled the development of segments, organs, and structures solved the problem of the final stage of embryogenesis, but it raised a seemingly infinite recursive conundrum.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee