regulate
verb (used with object)
to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc..
is regulating
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present progressiveof regulate (3rd person singular).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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A key focus is regulating AI in an increasingly fractured world.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2025
Such precise DNA reads allowed Greider's team to pinpoint the sequences adjacent to telomeres and hypothesize that those areas are where telomerase is regulating length.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
The county is regulating environmental impacts, requiring that companies take steps to reduce air pollution, said Lorelei Oviatt, director of the county’s Planning and Natural Resources Department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
That means nostalgia is regulating our brain activity in these areas, acting as a buffer against various psychological and physical threats.
From National Geographic ● Jul. 28, 2023
We cannot pass from the East without noticing the sound statesmanship which is regulating all Lord Ellenborough's leading movements in India—a matter now universally admitted.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various
