governed

Example Sentences

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The deepest danger is that we come to see ourselves as machines and therefore accept being governed as machines.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

What’s Next: Like human users, agents are going to require access to cleaned and properly governed data, which could raise consumption as workloads shift from people to machines.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

An executor has authority after death and only within the realm of probate related to assets governed by a will.

From MarketWatch • May 25, 2026

Now, Cepeda finds himself leading the polls for an election Sunday to choose the next president of Colombia, a country long governed by a conservative establishment allied with the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

None of this, of course, is even remotely possible in a country as ill governed as North Korea.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden