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Regulated means subject to regulations, which are a body of rules.

Regulated technical parameters like pressure and voltage are not subject to regulations (unless we construe the simple feedback mechanism to be a couple of rules).

It is blatant word semantic equivocation to conflate government regulation and pressure regulation.

The word "controlled" doesn't help much; it can be similarly equivocated as a near synonym of "regulated". Regulated pressure is controlled. A regulated industry is controlled.



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