- present participle of control.
controlling
Example Sentences
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"That tells us we can potentially tune electrical behavior by carefully controlling curvature at the nanoscale."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
It also took a controlling stake in a Chinese beauty brand Flower Knows, which has a growing presence overseas, including in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
"We're not waging any kind of "battle" against Spain; we're simply carefully controlling arrivals," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Iger, 75, and his wife, dean of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism Willow Bay, acquired a controlling stake in the Angel City Football Club of the National Women’s Soccer League in 2024.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 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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