controlling
Example Sentences
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Even so, companies are increasingly focused on understanding and controlling their spending on AI, just as they came to develop tools and processes for controlling their spending on cloud computing, according to Zilberman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Doing so is crucial to holding together Paramount’s coalition of financiers and controlling its rising expenses, primarily legal fees and escalating obligations to Warner shareholders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Even more surprising was that each time this trait evolved, it did so through different genes -- even though all of them belong to the same biological system controlling leaf development," says Bieker.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Both Air France-KLM and Lufthansa said Wednesday they had submitted bids to acquire a controlling stake in TAP Air Portugal that is being re-privatised.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Typical Connectives and, before, then after, once, while, when The language gives writers a second way of controlling the order in which two events are mentioned.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing controlling
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