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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George is a major control freak whose freakery just might be getting the better of him.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
The mom, Rebecca (Lucy Liu), is a first-class control freak, has become involved in some shady financial dealings, and dotes on her teenage son, Tyler (Eddy Maday), in a way that would make Freud’s head explode.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
The mom, Rebecca (Lucy Liu), is a first-class control freak, has become involved in some shady financial dealings, and dotes on her teenage son, Tyler (Eddy Maday), in a way that would make Freud’s head explode.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2025
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.
—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
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“Control freak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/control%20freak. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.
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