controlled
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The Home Office says it is considering advice on reducing barriers to research involving controlled drugs while ensuring safeguards remain in place.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
After the fifth controlled purchase, Paul approached the informant’s friend, the DU member who had connected the informant to Robinson.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
He called for an open approach to AI development, warning it would be "fundamentally wrong" for such a crucial technology to be controlled by a few companies, rendering oversight more difficult.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"By simulating quark confinement and string-breaking phenomena in a controlled lab environment, we're opening up new pathways for experimental investigations into the behavior of matter at its most fundamental level."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Soon after, Carl Wernicke found another area on the left temporal lobe that controlled the ability to understand speech.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
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