controlled
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After the fifth controlled purchase, Paul approached the informant’s friend, the DU member who had connected the informant to Robinson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
About 30 checkpoints along the route marked stretches of road controlled by different commanders – a clear sign of the fractured make-up of the forces fighting on the government side.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
A controlled human clinical trial will be needed to determine whether glucosamine directly accelerates Alzheimer's progression and, if so, which patients may be most vulnerable.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
He called for an open approach to AI development, warning it would be "fundamentally wrong" for such a crucial technology to be controlled by a few companies, rendering oversight more difficult.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
A translator explained he was part owner of the hotel as well as a local oligarch who controlled Siberian gas and oil fields.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
