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control

[kuhn-trohl] / kΙ™nˈtroʊl /






Usage

What are other ways to say control? Control is either power or influence applied to the complete and successful direction or manipulation of persons or things: to be in control of a project. Authority is a power or right, usually because of rank or office, to issue commands and to punish for violations: to have authority over subordinates. Influence is a personal and unofficial power derived from deference of others to one's character, ability, or station; it may be exerted unconsciously or may operate through persuasion: to have influence over one's friends.

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When control switched to Panama, the main change was to be a revenue provider for the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Some degree of "public control" could be required to make these changes work for everyone.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

But the US president never completely abandoned his intention bring the territory under US control.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

Morgan was at the center of a web of banks and industrial enterprises that exerted unprecedented control over the country’s commerce.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

The situation with Brie wasn’t beyond Dad’s control.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Like the Cybercab, Zoox taxis lack driver’s controls such as a steering wheel and gear shift.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Chinese automaker BYD’s decades-long investment in chip design and manufacturing illustrates how control of key semiconductor technologies can boost competitiveness as export controls spur adoption of domestic alternatives, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

You need someone who can tease out those patterns and make decisions across different sets of controls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

They said because Which?'s listing was not "live" on its site across the two months it was present, "some of our automatic fraud controls were not triggered to completely remove the closed listing".

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

In fact, only by standing on a wooden box could I reach the controls of the machine I was assigned to operate.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson

The NNA later reported additional strikes on the Nabatieh area, and controlled detonations of unexploded munitions in at least two parts of the south.

From Barron's ● Sep. 7, 2026

A marine engineer by training, she started working at the canal in 1985 when it was controlled by the United States.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Months of preparation, studying irrigation, and carefully controlled water and nutrition went into growing the giant vegetable.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Part of the money Walter invested in the deal came from the insurers he controlled, although that deal was vetted by state insurance regulators.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

The mathematics to model a trait controlled by five or seven genes, Fisher discovered, was not all that complex.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Materials designed to curve and then hold that form are often produced by molding polymers and carefully controlling residual stresses inside them.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Portugal's government said Friday it would pursue talks with both Air France-KLM and Lufthansa on privatising a controlling stake in national airline TAP Air Portugal.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Earlier this year he spearheaded a consortium who attempted to acquire a controlling stake in his former club Sevilla but the bid failed.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

Last month, Advent agreed to acquire a controlling stake in New Zealand Clinical Research from existing shareholders including Auckland-based Waterman Capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

There’s a shelf for video games, Adventure Time memorabilia all around, and Hailey in a beanbag chair, concentrating on the basketball players she’s controlling on Maya’s flat-screen.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas




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