Definition of "regulate"

the laws which regulate the succession of the seasons

1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police.

1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent

But on Tuesday, Sam Altman […] testified before members of a Senate subcommittee and largely agreed with them on the need to regulate the increasingly powerful A.I. technology being created inside his company and others like Google and Microsoft.

2023 May 16, Cecilia Kang, “OpenAI’s Sam Altman Urges A.I. Regulation in Senate Hearing”, in The New York Times‎