regulate
verb (used with object)
to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc..
are regulating
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present progressiveof regulate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"Knowing that, we thought that tracking these skin cells through wound healing presented a very good model for testing if and how metabolites are regulating this process overall."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
So they are regulating two components which self-regulate each other.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025
“I think in general, people are regulating themselves on their own,” said Geneva resident Florian Barbon who opposed the initiative.
From Reuters ● Sep. 25, 2022
They might be doing a bad job, but they are regulating the banks constantly.
From The Verge ● Apr. 6, 2021
Committees of council are regulating the mourning and the funeral.
From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II by Henry Cabot Lodge
