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govern

[guhv-ern] / ˈgʌv ərn /




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"They govern the evolution of their host galaxies by heating and essentially regulating the gas that's then available to cool and form into new stars."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

In August, hundreds showed up to defend California’s authority to govern its own coast at a Santa Monica hearing of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, and 18,000 more people filed comments online.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Figuring out how to govern A.I. must focus on the latter.

From Slate ● Sep. 15, 2026

"I call on states and companies to mobilise urgently through multilateral fora to chart a path for action to govern advanced, frontier Al models, grounded in international human rights law."

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

In previous chapters I have described general relativity, the partial theory of gravity, and the partial theories that govern the weak, the strong, and the electromagnetic forces.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

The treaty governs the use of water from six rivers, whose headwaters originate in India but flow into Pakistan as part of the Indus basin -- a resource relied on by hundreds of millions.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

He invoked Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which governs US trade enforcement of practices that burden or restrict American commerce.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

“What they have done is lower the standard for everything,” said Ali Khawar, a former senior official at the Department of Labor, which is charged with enforcing the federal law that governs retirement savings.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

On the republic’s 250th birthday, that is worth celebrating: not the government that governs us, but the restless, inventive, association-forming energy of the American people themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

For example: Here’s an explanation of the rhetorical term syllepsis: “the use of a word that relates to, qualifies, or governs two or more other words but has a different meaning in relation to each.”

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

The source told the Jerusalem Post, external that the meaning of the French sentence spoken by the president, "Le Hamas n'a jamais sévi en Cisjordanie," was, "Hamas has never governed the West Bank."

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

"But the gentoo is of most concern in the sub-Antarctic region," an area of widely separated islands north of Antarctica governed by numerous countries, including Chile, South Africa, France, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand,

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Such potential conflicts are typically governed by federal ethics rules.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

Karl Marx promised a utopia governed by the principle “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

At the time, the center was run by an energetic African American named Chris Holliday and governed by a board of trustees made up mostly of longtime Clarkston residents.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John

Earlier this week, Israel's football governing body accused Republic of Ireland head coach Heimir Hallgrimmson of "ignorance, hypocrisy and stupidity" regarding comments he made about facing Israel.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

The current rules giving athletes the right to earn money from their name, image and likeness aren’t the same as giving them power over the institutions governing their careers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Moore, 34, argued the WTA - the governing body of the women's tour - failed to warn players about the risk of eating contaminated meat at a tournament held in Colombia.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

An international team of astronomers co-led by an IAS scholar has identified what appears to be a universal rule governing one of the most dramatic behaviors of black holes: the production of powerful jets.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

At the time the new rules were adopted, the law governing civil forfeiture was so heavily weighted in favor of the government that fully 80 percent of forfeitures went uncontested.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander




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