regulate
verb (used with object)
to control or direct by a rule, principle, method, etc..
were regulating
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past progressiveof regulate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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This doesn’t just affect risk-loving traders; we are repeatedly disappointed to discover that regulators failed to forestall a crisis, because they made the same dumb assumptions as the people they were regulating.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2023
Karel Williams, professor of accounting and political economy at the University of Manchester, said policymakers were much too close to the industry they were regulating.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2012
Some cities were regulating poultry keeping even in the early 1900s.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2012
By the end of two weeks, the strikers were so fully in control that they were regulating what little rural commerce remained and had stopped the refueling of airplanes at airports.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here, they were at his service, detailed for Bence's just as much as if it had been a sale day and they and their mates were regulating the traffic in front of the shop.
From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell
