Definition of "in control" []

• When one is controlling a machine, or a situation, or an activity. Similar to in charge, but one person can be officially in charge, while another person is, in fact, in control. (adjective)

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• "And Mercedes Erra, of the Parisian advertising agency BETC, characterized the campaign as a paradoxically liberating RELATE strategy: “We wanted to get away from the image of the woman who is in control of everything.”"
• "And when Reagan was shot on March 30, an out-of-breath Haig, perspiring profusely, entered the White House press briefing room to declare that with the president incapacitated and Vice President George H. W. Bush on a plane returning from Texas, as of now, I am in control here, in the White House."
• "For Merilee Glick to gain comfort from my story, I had to relinquish ownership and let go of my desire to be in control of exactly how my work unfolded."