control freak
noun
: a person whose behavior indicates a powerful need to control people or circumstances in everyday matters
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My boss is a real control freak.
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Feeling pushed out, Torborg took the Mets’ generous offer.
Keenan, a noted control freak, self-destructed with the Hawks in 1992, months after his most memorable contribution to Hawks lore — putting star Jeremy Roenick in a cast during Game 2 of the ’92 Stanley Cup Final in Pittsburgh.
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Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
Pee-wee as Himself, the two-part, three-and-a-half-hour doc on both Reubens and the Frankenstein-monster manchild who eclipsed him, is nothing if not a portrait of the artist as a control freak.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
Ginny, their passive-aggressive control freak of a mother, will not admit into her home any problems, doubts or identities that violate her sense of upbeat Christian propriety.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
As Christina, the youngest of a trio of sisters, Olsen spends the film playing mediator between Natasha Lyonne’s depressed stoner, Rachel, and Carrie Coon’s domineering control freak, Katie.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
Pee-wee as Himself, the two-part, three-and-a-half-hour doc on both Reubens and the Frankenstein-monster manchild who eclipsed him, is nothing if not a portrait of the artist as a control freak.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2025
Ginny, their passive-aggressive control freak of a mother, will not admit into her home any problems, doubts or identities that violate her sense of upbeat Christian propriety.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
As Christina, the youngest of a trio of sisters, Olsen spends the film playing mediator between Natasha Lyonne’s depressed stoner, Rachel, and Carrie Coon’s domineering control freak, Katie.
—Rachel Handler, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
See All Example Sentences for control freak
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“Control freak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/control%20freak. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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