Definitions

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  • adjective Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of control.

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  • adjective restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds

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Examples

  • & CEO, WORLD SHIPPING COU.CIL: There is no evidence that terminal facilities operations conducted by foreign controlled companies are any less secure or in any way less compliant with security regulations, or in any way less cooperative with U.S. government security authorities than U. S.-controlled companies.

    CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2006 2006

  • The MPs said that the term "controlled archive" was used in an attempt to hide that it was a list of lost applicants.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • We also object to the euphemistic term 'controlled archive'.

    MPs attack archive of lost asylum applicants 2011

  • The first thing I notice is what I call a controlled creative clutter.

    j.crew's desks at a continuous lean lavardera 2009

  • The first thing I notice is what I call a controlled creative clutter.

    Archive 2009-02-01 lavardera 2009

  • It would only be given under what I call controlled environment.

    CNN Transcript Aug 20, 2009 2009

  • It would only be given under what I call controlled environment.

    CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2009 2009

  • BLITZER: Because the -- the pilots 'union suggested that pilots should be allowed to have what they called controlled naps.

    CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009 2009

  • I think that they have an inclination to talk too much just to what they call controlled assets, that is spies that they ` ve recruited and pay.

    CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2006 2006

  • That arrest occurred Tuesday in Spring Valley, New York, according to a DEA official, two of the agency's undercover agents make what they call a controlled delivery of marijuana to Sean James Timoney at a hotel there.

    CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2005 2005

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