Controlling
Controlling adjective - Able to control or determine policy.
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Touching and controlling are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Touching" instead an adjective "Controlling".
Touching
Touching adjective - Having a border in common.
Controlling and touching are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Controlling" instead an adjective "Touching".
Both words in one sentence
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If you had to wear something made out of mind-controlling parasitic aliens, wouldn't you want as little of it as possible touching you?
Source: Stripperiffic - This let the actors look like they were controlling the ship entirely through a touch interface, and that touching the same small series of buttons could read out numerous different functions.
- In the movie InuYasha: Affections Touching Across Time, Sango sheds tears when forced to fight the mind-controlled Kirara and one of the drops happens to fall just on the mind-controlling device, thus empowering Kirara to snap out of it.
Source: Swiss Army Tears
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