govern
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Prize law provided rules to govern the practice and to protect against abuse.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Union leaders also pointed to stronger protections against AI, including new guidelines that govern how studios should use generative AI and that strongly favor “human performances.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Interim Welsh Labour leader Ken Skates told the Senedd "no one knows better than our party that it is a privilege to govern", which now "rests on different shoulders."
From BBC • May 12, 2026
The elections on Thursday cover councils in London and several other parts of England, as well as the devolved administrations that govern Scotland and Wales.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Rees maintains that six numbers in particular govern our universe, and that if any of these values were changed even very slightly things could not be as they are.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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