control
Usage
Example Sentences
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‘I’m fed up’: My selfish mother-in-law has controlled me for 30 years.
From MarketWatch
The accident wasn't my fault and I had very little control over the best way to navigate it.
From BBC
With all his receivers covered, he scrambled for a back-breaking eight-yard run in the third quarter to tighten Indiana’s control of the game.
From Los Angeles Times
The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is also blunt in stating that Schedule 1 "contains those of no medicinal value," so they should sit under the tightest controls, it says.
From BBC
"It's just worry about the stuff we can control."
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
