under control

phrase

: able to be handled or managed with success : not out of control

She remained calm and kept the situation under control.

A year after the divorce, he finally got his life back under control.

The firefighters got the fire under control.

You need to get your drinking/gambling/anger under control.

Examples of under control in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

On July 29, Medicare chief Mehmet Oz announced that the government is canceling a subsidy program that kept premiums for the Medicare prescription drug benefit — known as Part D — under control. — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026

Several fires that burned through mountain communities and coastal areas west of Athens were brought under control overnight. — ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026

But perhaps the more foolish, collective action is to refuse to get carbon emissions under control, and then instead to place the blame on historic communities who do not want to abandon their culture in the name of climate adaptation. — Morgan Simon, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

In France, many of the major wildfires which raged last week are now under control, though maps showed some active fires in the southeast on Tuesday. — Robbie Griffiths, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for under control

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