controlled
Example Sentences
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“It’s very easy to say, how could they not have known? But these women are so manipulated, so controlled on a daily basis.”
From Los Angeles Times
A person who is used to controlling others does not like being controlled.
From MarketWatch
Instead, what we are seeing is controlled compression — a market reducing emergency hedging without abandoning protection entirely.
From MarketWatch
Palisades resident and architect Ardie Tavangarian is so confident in his design that he even asked the fire department if they could start a controlled fire on the property to test it all out.
From Los Angeles Times
They are the first randomized controlled trial of the test, which followed more than 140,000 healthy people in England’s National Health Service over three years.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
