controlled

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“You can’t control where you’re going, as far as the regional, but you could have controlled playing better baseball in those moments,” Stankiewicz said.

From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026

Understanding Raducanu would have a lack of sharpness, Sierra controlled the baseline rallies and cleverly dragged her opponent from side to side before unleashing precise winners.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Musk’s voting power will make SpaceX a so-called controlled company, exempt from certain Nasdaq corporate-governance requirements.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

His social media feeds increasingly blur the line between governance, architecture and fortress fantasy: giant protective systems, controlled ceremonial spaces, triumphant crowds and heavily curated images of power.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

Ed Lewis’s discovery of master-regulatory genes that controlled the development of segments, organs, and structures solved the problem of the final stage of embryogenesis, but it raised a seemingly infinite recursive conundrum.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee