- present participle of control.
controlling
Example Sentences
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The Ellison family will be the controlling shareholders with longtime Skydance investor RedBird Capital Partners joining with voting shares.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
For decades, answering this question would have been straightforward: The controlling Supreme Court precedent, a case called Stinson v.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
But we question why the parents must move to a high-cost area and surrender essentially all of their assets to finance a property that the older brother insists on owning and controlling.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
As with the car and other society-transforming innovations, the day is coming when we’ll ask if AI is controlling us or we’re controlling it, and it won’t be a stupid question.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“Finny, I—” there was no controlling what I said, the words were instinctive, like the reactions of someone cornered.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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