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keep in check
verb as in bridle
verb as in repress
Strong matches
Example Sentences
We have failed to keep in check an industry that needs wars, death, and destruction to grow.…
Russia is allocating nearly a third of its overall 2024 budget to national defense spending this year, a huge increase, adding to a deficit that the Kremlin has taken pains to keep in check.
Ju, the study's first author, says detection tools are often less scrutinized than the artificial intelligence tools they keep in check, but that doesn't mean they don't need to be held accountable, too.
Generals have run Myanmar for five of the past six decades and have a track record of combining battlefield might with divide-and-rule strategies to control from the centre and keep in check formidable borderland rebellions.
Generals have run Myanmar for five of the past six decades and have a track record of combining battlefield might with divide-and-rule strategies to control from the centre and keep in check formidable borderland rebellions.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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