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govern

[guhv-ern] / ˈgʌv ərn /




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Companies that can orchestrate, govern and scale these agents across the enterprise will be the next category winners.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 21, 2026

For, as Madison said, “if men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

As they’ve grown in popularity, prediction-market platforms have become sports betting vehicles, exempt from the state regulations that govern more traditional sportsbooks.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

States have exclusive authority to govern and administer state and local elections.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

Examples include the rules that govern punctuation, complex forms of agreement, and fine semantic distinctions between uncommon words like militate and mitigate and credible and credulous.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker




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