governed
Example Sentences
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The facilities would be governed by the new 2026 detention standards and include terms that mirror those from the Northwest facility’s contract, that stricter state or local laws “shall not apply.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
In the 1980s, he teamed up with the Association for the Conservation of Energy, a body governed by directors and CEOs.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Prediction-market operators argue that wagers on football games and other contests are merely event contracts governed exclusively by federal commodities law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
By connecting non-inertial quantum effects with measurable particle behavior, the work opens a new direction for studying matter governed by the strong interaction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Most verbs that take subjectless complements, such as try in Alice tried to calm down, are governed by an ironclad rule that forces the overt subject to be identical to the missing subject.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
