GOVERNING Synonyms: 100 Similar and Opposite Words

governing

verb

present participle of govern

as in ruling

to exercise authority or power over the president is elected in order to govern the country, not to follow public opinion polls

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as in regulating

to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression) you need to govern your speech and be able to communicate your outrage without resorting to profanity

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as in managing

to look after and make decisions about the company's finances are governed by its chief financial officer

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Recent Examples of governing Of note, recognizing these concerns, the commission voted in December 2025 to establish an ad hoc Governance Committee to review all governing documents and create policies and procedures to allow the pension commission to fulfill its fiduciary duties. —

Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2026 Nepal currently lacks a legal framework governing robotic expeditions on Everest. —

Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 June 2026 Preliminary results from the election commission suggested the governing party has won 61 seats in the National Assembly. —

Avet Demourian, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2026 The National Park Service previously amended regulations governing the National Capital Region to facilitate planning for the 250th anniversary of American independence. —

Tiago Ventura, Time, 8 June 2026 Such rules governing how the city must treat the system have proved inescapable. —

Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 8 June 2026 With the World Cup coming to Kansas City this summer, the international governing body for the sport reserved up to 5,000 hotel rooms a night for many of the nights that the organization’s officials and business partners would be in town. —

Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026 The country also holds the crypto industry to high standards, with several regulatory bodies—including the Central Bank of Bahrain, Financial Intelligence Directorate and Ministry of Industry and Commerce—involved in enforcing rules governing digital assets. —

Angelica Ang, Fortune, 1 June 2026 For years, his presumptive heir had been Michel Platini, a former captain of the French national team and the president of UEFA, Europe’s soccer governing body. —

Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

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Shasta County Superior Court judges denied two prior lawsuits that aimed to block Measure B from appearing on the ballot, including one from Shasta County’s attorney Joseph Larmour, without ruling on the substance of their cases.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 13 June 2026
However, in June 2025, a federal judge dismissed Baldoni's countersuit, ruling that many of the statements at issue were legally protected and that the claims did not meet the legal standards required to proceed.

— Janelle Ash , Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026