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controlled

[kuhn-trohld] / kənˈtroʊld /




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Some security officials and lawmakers fear that technologies that allow the cranes to be programmed and controlled remotely could allow China to spy on ports or shut ports down in time of war.

From The Wall Street Journal

"R-loops are important for many different cell functions, but they must be tightly controlled," says senior author Xiaohua Wu, a professor at Scripps Research.

From Science Daily

"But England played really well today. We probably controlled the first half of the game, all yesterday, and then they came back into play today and took the game away from us."

From Barron's

The second phase involved a controlled dietary intervention carried out in Christchurch and Germany.

From Science Daily

We validated that these circuits controlled honesty more broadly: The same neural features that determine whether models claim consciousness also control whether they lie about factual questions.

From The Wall Street Journal