controlling

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Roberts has picked trusted associates to run each firm, and his family will continue to hold controlling shares of both companies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2026

But when she later moved jobs to work at a new company he was launching, she said she became increasingly aware of his "controlling" behaviour.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026

The siblings had a controlling and demanding father and a mother who was a long-traumatized Holocaust survivor.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

Today’s decision permits the executive, in at least some circumstances, to prevent that process from ever beginning by controlling the very event that triggers it.

From Slate • Jun. 26, 2026

The epithelial cells have the ability to constrict to change the absorption of light, controlling the subject’s color and texture on a cell-by-bell basis.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste