regulate

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However, a 1945 federal law, the McCarran-Ferguson Act, delegates authority to regulate the insurance industry primarily to individual states.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

"If we don't regulate the funeral industry, if we don't look seriously at it, then there is nothing to stop this happening again," said Hardy.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

In the midst of all of this deep concern about the future of AI, 74% of Americans think the government isn’t doing enough to regulate the use of AI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

She wrote that the majority’s ruling “opens a dangerous can of worms” that “threatens to impair states’ ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect.”

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2026

How did a lactose-sensing protein recognize and regulate only a lactose-digesting gene—and not the thousands of other genes in a cell?

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee