Thesaurus results for REGULATORS

regulators

noun

plural of regulator

as in controllers

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 regulators The bill would keep a ban in effect until late 2027; enough time, Sachs hopes, for state energy and environmental regulators to design rules of the road for large data centers, which need vast amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence and other computing. —

Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2026 This past year regulators cracked down on foreign commercial truck drivers and fraudulent commercial driving schools, and have vowed to take on chameleon carriers. —

Ashley Velie, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026 Commercial fishing crews will be permitted to catch salmon along the California coast this year for the first time since 2022 as regulators end a three-year shutdown after seeing an increase in the struggling salmon population. —

Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026 The release of Mythos has exposed how much regulators trail the latest AI models; the White House has continued to barrel forward with an industry-friendly policy, according to The Wall Street Journal. —

Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Apr. 2026 Such permits are typically granted after years of correspondence between the Environmental Protection Agency, state regulators and the public. —

Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 10 Apr. 2026 The Treasury is planning to meet with state regulators, which directly oversee insurers in the US, to discuss emerging risks and outlooks for the sector, the agency said in an April statement. —

Katanga Johnson, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2026 This week, California regulators are taking a critical look at one of the state’s most harmful laws. —

Tom Manzo, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026 In parallel, regulators are introducing stronger traceability requirements. —

Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026

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But Wednesday's test, the second to involve all four crew members, was called off to give flight controllers time to troubleshoot a liquid oxygen pressurization issue in the crew ship's service module that cropped up shortly after launch.

— William Harwood, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2026
However, the sun is shining upon the spacecraft with such might that on mission Day 3, controllers got worried that the windows were heating up too much.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026