Apply
Control
Control verb - To keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression).
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Both words in one sentence
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Jerkass Has a Point: Believe it or not, the out of control teen girls do have some good ideals, but apply them poorly.
Source: Series / Maury -
This may apply to the greater population too, since it would be a perfect way for barons to control how much knowledge their people have of the outside world.
Source: Series / Into The Badlands - In RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse Twilight Sparkle is convinced that the laws limiting knowledge of certain fields of magic (such as mind-control spells) only apply to other ponies.
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