Controlled
Controlled adjective - Restrained or managed or kept within certain bounds.
Ensure
Ensure verb - To make sure, certain, or safe.
Controlled is a synonym for ensure. Sometimes you can replace term "Controlled" with "Ensure", this verbs are similar.
Nearby Word: ensuring
Both words in one sentence
- Money Sink: Taxes and bills for repairs, ammunition and fuel ensure that inflation is controlled.
Source: Video Game / Ace Online -
Automated revolving carousels and remote-controlled sliding shelves filled with more clothes and accessories than the show has episodes ensure that Hannah never needs to wear the same thing twice.
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Arguably, the most famous example is a story in which Saturn Girl mind-controlled the Legion into electing her leader and then stole all of their powers so that she could ensure that she would be the Legionnaire to make a prophesied Heroic Sacrifice.
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