governed

Example Sentences

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Going forward, it was hoped that Southern governments would truly rest on the consent of the governed, as the Declaration of Independence had promised.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 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

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

“With AWS, we are making it easier for enterprises to bring AI directly to governed data, so they can move faster, operate with greater clarity, and create measurable impact at scale,” Ramaswamy added.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

In a landmark paper written in 1897, entitled Hereditary Monstrosities, de Vries analyzed his data and inferred that each trait was governed by a single particle of information.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee