controlling
Example Sentences
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Instead, the market seemed to move because a UMA voter controlling roughly 10% of the vote announced a “Yes” vote on Discord.
From Barron's • May 12, 2026
He argued the state should play a bigger role in controlling the country’s economic fate, including the nationalization of key utilities, the mass construction of social housing and rebuilding ties with Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
It has led every Welsh government since then, controlling the country's policies on health, education, transport and local government, among others.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
The paper, which was published April 27 in Nature Neuroscience, answers a puzzling question about the mechanism controlling this long-observed cerebral movement.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
The great contemporary achievement of modern medicine is the technology for controlling and preventing bacterial infection, but this did not fall into our laps with the appearance of penicillin and the sulfonamides.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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