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Radio signals can also be jammed, so incoming drones lose direction or go out of control.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

Sometimes you have to let it go out of control, but there are some things definitely on that IMDb page where I'm like, "Ooh."

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2024

That said, he adds their populations should be monitored so that they don’t go out of control in certain areas with vulnerable local fauna, like islands.

From National Geographic ● Aug. 4, 2023

“They get pushed on Twitter and go out of control because everybody sees them and journalists cover them,” he says.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 8, 2022

Nor do I want to throw the comics away: that would be letting them loose, they might go out of control.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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