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Turns out that wool regulates temperature, repels water, wicks away moisture, and resists stains and dirt.

Once we eat, insulin (which regulates the breakdown of fat) increases in our body.

It over-regulates the insurance industry—the people who should have the mission of cost control.

And if code is law, then we need to be as smart about how code regulates us as we are about how the law does so.

A national law that regulates family status no longer protects women.

The engine requires very little attention—a common labouring man easily regulates it.

Heredity decides how a man shall be bred; environment regulates what he shall learn.

Society regulates itself—being governed by mind, which like water, finds its own level.

Men live for themselves;—it is humiliating to see how this principle regulates feeling and action.

We have noticed the alliance between this spiritual substance and the material body, whose functions it regulates.

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On this page you'll find 72 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to regulates, such as: control, readjust, standardize, monitor, rectify, and oversee.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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