well-controlled

adjective (well controlled when postpositive)

regulated, operated, or restrained successfully or strictlywell-controlled research work

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having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision.

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Words nearby well-controlled

well-conducted, well-connected, well-considered, well-constructed, well-content, well-controlled, well-cooked, well-covered, well-cultivated, well-defended, well-defined

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Example sentences from the Web for well-controlled

And some had been so well-controlled by vaccines that it no longer seemed like I would ever actually see a case during my career.
Thanks to Anti-Vaxxers, Mumps Are Back. What’s Next?|Russell Saunders|March 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Graham is a fluent and ingenious rhymester, with an alert mind and a well-controlled sense of humour.'
Fiscal Ballads|Harry Graham
He must know what it was, if anything in Harper's well-controlled countenance would tell him.
The Chief Legatee|Anna Katharine Green
The law of recapitulation is in some well-controlled cases triumphantly vindicated by palæontology.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

The meal passed in quiet, well-controlled talk about indifferent things.
Night and Day|Virginia Woolf
Yesterday, she told herself, it was a deep, but well-controlled and respectable little stream.
Mount Music|E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross

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