control
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Example Sentences
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She thinks the rise is down to tighter controls on sending money from bank accounts and people not expecting to be scammed with gift cards as it is a "relatively new" fraud.
From BBC
The research, published in Nature Neuroscience, shows that dopamine does not directly control how fast or how forcefully a person moves, as many experts previously believed.
From Science Daily
Using this analogy, he explains that Earth's climate control is not broken.
From Science Daily
The fragile global legal framework for nuclear weapons control faces further setbacks in 2026, eroding guardrails to avoid a nuclear crisis.
From Barron's
In June of that year he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a rapid neurodegenerative disease that kills the brain cells needed to control muscles in the body.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
