controlled

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Old e-commerce winners controlled traffic, payments, and warehouses.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

South Kivu is controlled by the Rwandan-backed armed group M23, which has never had to manage an epidemic like Ebola.

From Barron's • May 23, 2026

In the yearlong randomized controlled trial, people with knee osteoarthritis were trained to make a small, personalized change in the angle of their foot while walking.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

Winning six Premier League titles in seven seasons using that approach meant controlled, positional, high-possession football became the norm.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

But I wouldn’t be keeping within my experiment’s controlled variables if I used a nonhuman participant.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas