as in parliamentary
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making or concerned with making official rules about what is acceptable in a particular business, activity, etc.
a regulatory agency They are seeking regulatory approval for the merger.
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Recent Examples of regulatory
The investment, which is subject to regulatory approvals, does not appear to include the manufacturing of Nvidia chips with Intel’s foundry.
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John Melloy, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
With the gap between predictive models and regulatory maps now exposed, pressure is building on municipalities and state agencies to modernize infrastructure and flood mitigation planning.
—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
The deal is subject to regulatory approvals.
—Yessar Rosendar, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The hox gene clusters have two chunks of regulatory DNA that help set the activity of the genes within the cluster, one upstream of the genes, one downstream.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
The home of world-leading firms such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG spent decades at technology’s vanguard, but fortunes have wilted in recent years because of a stifling regulatory environment, demographic pressures, and fierce competition from China.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
New Features in Detail The Mini 5 Pro is a 249g drone, a weight class that was originally developed in direct response to regulatory requirements.
—PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
John Melloy, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
With the gap between predictive models and regulatory maps now exposed, pressure is building on municipalities and state agencies to modernize infrastructure and flood mitigation planning.
—Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
The deal is subject to regulatory approvals.
—Yessar Rosendar, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The hox gene clusters have two chunks of regulatory DNA that help set the activity of the genes within the cluster, one upstream of the genes, one downstream.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
The home of world-leading firms such as Samsung, Hyundai, and LG spent decades at technology’s vanguard, but fortunes have wilted in recent years because of a stifling regulatory environment, demographic pressures, and fierce competition from China.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
New Features in Detail The Mini 5 Pro is a 249g drone, a weight class that was originally developed in direct response to regulatory requirements.
—PC Magazine, 17 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for regulatory
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Last year Victor Miller, a candidate for mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming, put his AI chatbot VIC on the ballot, while a man in the UK entered a parliamentary election in the southern city of Brighton as AI Steve, also planning to delegate authority to a neural network.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
19 Sep. 2025
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Democrats asked for a repeat of the parliamentary session, complaining that the governing Socialists canceled the debate on the Cabinet’s program.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.—
Amanda Castro
Shane Croucher
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Cancelling all skeptics was Democrat policy – the Orwellian censorship was being enforced by, among other governmental agencies, the FBI.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
18 Sep. 2025
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Their university boards adopted the principles as official policy in the fall of 2024.—
David Mark,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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But while Colvin’s professional stint amounted to little more than a brief stop with the San Francisco 49ers—without even appearing in an official NFL game—Robinson spent three seasons in the NBA and won a championship with the Seattle SuperSonics in 1979.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Rabia Chaudry, an attorney and friend of the Syed family, who brought the story to Serial host Sarah Koenig and is an executive producer on the docuseries, considers the murder of Lee unsolved.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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Miran has already uttered the unthinkable about dollar dominance and done the unthinkable by serving as an executive branch loyalist on the Fed board.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Regulatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/regulatory. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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