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out of control

  1. Also, out of hand. No longer under management, direction, or regulation; unmanageable or unruly. For example, Housing costs are out of control, or The children were getting out of hand again. The first term uses control in the sense of “restraint,” a usage dating from the late 1500s; the variant uses hand in the sense of “power” or “authority,” and dates from the late 1800s.



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If you’re anything like me — that is, frequently fraught with fear that humanity’s loss of compassion is not only spiraling out of control, but irreversible — Hanks’ documentary is a godsend antidote to contemporary anxiety, if only for two hours.

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"We know how quickly things can spiral out of control," the source said.

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A video of the crash posted to social media shows the helicopter veering dangerously close to a building before spinning out of control and diving nose-first into a stretch of road or sidewalk at the edge of the beach.

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Fumarate acts like a brake, keeping mitophagy from running out of control.

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But it’s another question how many easy savings there are, and how much they can make a material difference to a budget picture that is out of control.

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