How to Use regulator in a Sentence

regulator

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  • Records show the regulator agency fined the lodge $2,000.
    — Peter Hermann, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
  • Again, Kotick sees regulators fanning the flames that led to the Journal’s exposés.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 31 May 2023
  • Use a spray bottle, clean sponge, or paintbrush to spray or brush the soapy solution onto the gas valve, the hose, and the regulator.
    — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 24 June 2023
  • After the lessons were over, there were all these scuba tanks with regulators just lying around the pool.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Bracing for bad loans Of course, banks and their regulators have learned a lot of lessons from last year’s banking crisis.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Bankers and regulators have tried to reassure investors that the worst of the crisis is past, to little avail.
    — Ken Sweet and Michelle Chapman, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
  • So, the obvious question is—talking all the time with regulators—what to do about it?
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 16 May 2024
  • Voltage regulator readings are even tighter, with the 901 joining what appears to be a four-way tie for first.
    — PCMAG, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The researchers called on parents, schools and regulators to help reduce those risks.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Earlier this month, First Republic became the third U.S. bank to be seized by regulators in the past two months.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 8 May 2023
  • Next, regulators should force studios to be transparent about their use of AI.
    — Simon Rich, Time, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The bank disclosed the layoff plans this week in a filing to state regulators and local officials.
    — oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Big tech isn’t popular these days, but that isn’t a license for regulators to abuse their power.
    — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 7 May 2023
  • The regulator didn’t respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
    — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Instagram, WhatsApp and their owner Meta are among other tech giants that have been hit with big fines by the Irish regulator over the past year.
    — Kelvin Chan, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The answer is Don Hankey, a subprime car loan billionaire who has run afoul of regulators.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Here’s some information about each airline, their customer bases, the way antitrust regulators will view the deal, and the impact of past mergers.
    — David Koenig, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2023
  • To meet climate goals, regulators want drivers to cut their mileage by a quarter of their pre-pandemic levels by 2030.
    — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The goal is to get the device approved by regulators so that it can be prescribed by doctors through the National Health Service or Medicaid.
    — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Or is Farmers playing a game of chicken with state regulators, hoping that walking away now will give it leverage to charge customers more in the future?
    — Emily Flitter, New York Times, 14 July 2023
  • The paper is important because the ideas in it could wind up forming the basis for an industry-wide effort and could guide regulators.
    — Byjeremy Kahn, Fortune, 26 May 2023
  • The firm, which offered returns as high as 21% for some products, was operating in Hong Kong without a license, the regulator said.
    — WSJ, 25 Sep. 2023
  • These shareholders were unhappy that the bank scrapped its dividend in 2020, at the request of British regulators.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 5 May 2023
  • State Air Board regulators were tasked with overseeing its spending plans in four installments, and their approval of this last segment marks the beginning of the end.
    — Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024
  • New Oregon testing protocols turned up levels of arsenic in a batch of cannabis flower that pose a risk to public health, regulators said.
    — The Oregonian, oregonlive, 15 July 2023
  • In the past week, seven horses died, one trainer and his horse were kicked off the grounds by regulators under a cloud of suspicion and four other Derby horses were declared out of the race.
    — Joe Drape, New York Times, 7 May 2023
  • But in other countries where regulators have forced open exceptions in the App Store, Apple has found ways to limit them as much as possible.
    — Ariel Shapiro, The Verge, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Yet financial regulators want banks to focus on—drum roll, please—climate change.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2023
  • In that post-approval window, scientists and regulators have evidence that a drug is effective and safe.
    — Jess Craig, Vox, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The company is seeking approval from regulators to start deliveries in Tolleson, Arizona, west of Phoenix.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024

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