Example Sentences

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Legos, crafting kits and remote-controlled cars helped demand.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

Which means that in most cases on the battlefield armed UGVs are remote-controlled by operators over the internet from a safe distance.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

As a child, Lisa Su opened up her brother’s remote-controlled car when it broke, and, as she tells it, identified a loose wire connection and taught herself how to repair the toy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

After another union member named Fred Anderson was struck and killed by a remote-controlled train near Toledo that September, Brown reached out to Esterly personally and asked to pass along his regrets to Anderson’s family.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2025

No, that’s not right; I actually fell over my own feet, which felt like they were being remote-controlled by a spider monkey during a sleep-deprivation experiment.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen