REGULATED Synonyms: 86 Similar and Opposite Words

regulated

verb

past tense of regulate

as in controlled

to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression) you would be well advised to regulate your enthusiasm for the venture and pause to consider the risk involved

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as in operated

to look after and make decisions about the government agency that regulates the nuclear power industry in this country

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Recent Examples of regulated Although each has invested in compliance tooling, their architectures are fundamentally optimized for scale and accessibility, not for the verifiable operational independence that regulated enterprises require. —

Steve McDowell, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 The chemical behind the explosion — ammonium nitrate — is not regulated under RMP. —

Evan Bush, NBC news, 30 May 2026 On Monday, Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calling for AI to be disarmed and regulated in the service of humanity. —

Shlomit Wagman, Fortune, 30 May 2026 From the 1840s to the 1860s, students produced rules that regulated how the ball could be handled, how many members a team should have and how scores were counted. —

Thomas Adam, The Conversation, 29 May 2026 Yet this pollution isn’t regulated, and manufacturers are moving to dramatically increase the amount of plastics produced in the United States. —

Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026 Garver noted that the workload extended across the entire cast and crew, especially the younger actors whose schedules were carefully regulated. —

Tereza Shkurtaj, PEOPLE, 24 May 2026 Unlike the Olympics, athletes competing in the Enhanced Games are allowed to use performance-enhancing substances such as testosterone, HGH and EPO under medical supervision, though organizers say drugs must be regulated and monitored. —

Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 23 May 2026 The law's current language lists exceptions to the ban on forms of gambling that have been on the books and regulated by the state for years, like lottery sales, horse betting and casinos. —

Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 20 May 2026

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The paint is deftly mottled but its handling lacks the prowess of her later work (see, for example, Being Beamed, 1984, a fantasia of extraterrestrial teleportation in which the watercolor is sumptuous but perfectly controlled).

— Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
One interested investor was a major Iranian telecom company owned in part, through layers of subsidiaries, by Setad-e Ejrayi, a bonyad controlled by Khamenei.

— Bozorgmehr Sharafedin, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026