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controlled

[kuhn-trohld] / kənˈtroʊld /




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A comedy of offensive errors in the second quarter, with the ball on the one-yard line, destroyed Mater Dei coach Raul Lara’s plan for a controlled performance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026

The urge to project a placid, controlled demeanor to friends and lovers is often amplified by the desire to reassure employers of one’s emotional competence.

From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2026

Developed and manufactured through Hesperos, a company co-founded by Hickman, these miniature systems bring different types of human cells together under controlled conditions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026

Czech Noskova played with controlled aggression and served brilliantly to beat the American 6-3 6-3.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 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


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