controlled
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The researchers controlled for a variety of factors that can influence health including tobacco use, physical activity, daily caloric intake, blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
One side displays adjuvant molecules arranged at carefully controlled nanometer distances, while the opposite side presents selected antigens such as peptides or proteins from tumors or pathogens.
From Science Daily
Quangos - or arm's length bodies - are organisations such as regulators, cultural institutions and advisory bodies which are funded by taxpayers but not directly controlled from Whitehall.
From BBC
Western Alliance says Jefferies is supposed to pay it back because it fully controlled and was effectively the same as the SPV.
Theo lets out a long breath, slow and controlled, like blowing the wisps off a dandelion.
From Literature
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