Thesaurus results for REGULATOR

regulator

noun

ˈre-gyə-ˌlā-tər

as in controller

a mechanism for adjusting the operation of a device, machine, or system the voltage regulator will make sure your car's alternator gets the right amount of electricity

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Recent Examples of regulator The company sends the bills, requests rate increases, and answers to regulators. —

Matt Parr, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026 Netflix walked away from its offer, leaving regulators as Skydance’s only potential foil. —

Matt Sedensky, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2026 Shareholders will need to approve the deal – and so will regulators. —

David Goldman, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026 The Charter-Cox merger is still undergoing review by state regulators and also needs clearance from the Justice Department. —

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This enables advanced optimization tasks, previously limited to high-performance servers, to run in real time on compact, low-power devices such as vehicle systems and robot controllers.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 24 Feb. 2026
Somehow, sources said, the vandals also damaged a master door controller — the control panel that allows a train operator or conductor to open and close the train’s doors.

— Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2026