governed

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They are constructed products governed by rules, committees, methodologies, assumptions and increasingly competitive business pressures.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

The officers on the original list were selected by a board of admirals that are governed by “precepts” set by the service secretaries.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

What’s Next: Like human users, agents are going to require access to cleaned and properly governed data, which could raise consumption as workloads shift from people to machines.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

Data warehousing takes all of a customer’s cloud data that come from many different sources in varied formats, and puts them together into a cleaned, governed source for enterprise data analysis and forecasting.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

By now, it should be obvious that chiefdoms introduced the dilemma fundamental to all centrally governed, nonegalitarian societies.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond