control
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Example Sentences
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Congress passed, and the Supreme Court unanimously upheld, a law requiring the app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to divest and relinquish operational control of the U.S. business or be banned.
And Paramount’s takeover would combine two major film studios and two leading news organizations, CNN and CBS News, under Ellison family control.
From Los Angeles Times
When a few companies control an entire market, they turn every crisis into an excuse to raise prices.
From MarketWatch
Ninety percent believe they have the ability to exercise meaningful control over their own lives.
That August, as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, Sullivan returned to Germany to help Sodais prepare for his final asylum appeal hearing.
From Los Angeles Times
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