Controlling
Controlling adjective - Able to control or determine policy.
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Synonyms for Controlling
Hold
Hold verb - To have or keep in one's hands.
Controlling is a synonym for hold. Sometimes you can replace term "Controlling" with "Hold", this verbs are similar.
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Inversion of the Robotic Reveal, where a machine that was assumed to be a robot turns out to hold a Man in the Machine or some other living creature powering or controlling it.
Source: Un-Robotic Reveal - They were originally one person occupying one reality, until the Big Bad turned it into two realities, hoping that he would be able to hold power by controlling both.
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The Ultra-Humanite once got a hold of the genie Thunderbolt and then, controlling the world from a Brain in a Jar, seizes telepathic control of every hero on Earth.
Source: Villain World
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