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as in to supervise
to look after and make decisions about
will oversee the new manufacturing division
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as in to handle
to be in charge of
looking for someone to oversee the project from start to finish
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as in to watch
to take charge of especially on behalf of another
oversee the household until Dad gets home
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as in to examine
to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)
her job was to oversee each and every dish before it left the kitchen and was served to a customer
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Recent Examples of oversee
Here the manager is not an agent but a founder whose personal wealth exceeds the GDP of most nations, whose companies span satellites, artificial intelligence, social media and space exploration, and whose actions carry geopolitical weight that no corporate board was designed to oversee.
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Mary Johnstone-Louis,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
However, Heather Harper, a spokeswoman for UC Health — which oversees six academic health centers including UCSD — countered those claims to the La Jolla Light this week.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 June 2026
In the weeks since, both the White House and the Department of Homeland Security — which oversees ICE — have shared memes to their social media accounts endorsing the new name.
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Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
20 June 2026
The county — along with Orange, Osceola and the city of Orlando — is required to be part of the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority, which oversees Lynx.
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Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 June 2026
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Mary Johnstone-Louis,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
However, Heather Harper, a spokeswoman for UC Health — which oversees six academic health centers including UCSD — countered those claims to the La Jolla Light this week.
—
Ashley MacKin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 June 2026
In the weeks since, both the White House and the Department of Homeland Security — which oversees ICE — have shared memes to their social media accounts endorsing the new name.
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Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
20 June 2026
The county — along with Orange, Osceola and the city of Orlando — is required to be part of the Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority, which oversees Lynx.
—
Martin E. Comas,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 June 2026
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That enables Cadence’s system, which is supervised by physicians, to alert a clinician when a patient is deteriorating before a stroke or heart attack, for example.
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Judge Stacy Street sentenced Beckwith to three years supervised probation, the court clerk confirmed to USA TODAY.
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Bosch, the German engineering firm, says its British subsidiary now handles 10,000 import transactions per year, a stunning increase from just 40 annually prior to Brexit.
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According to the developers, the AI agent will create itineraries, handle arrangements, and try to anticipate what guests need.
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Despite the heat on Friday afternoon, a large crowd gathered at Bayfront Park to watch Team USA face off in its second match of the FIFA World Cup.
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Debating the ‘Suez moment’ As the two sides enter into the next phase of negotiation, observers are watching closely for what exactly the US gained from a conflict that took a heavy global economic toll.
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Link to earlier discovery The new findings come less than a year after Perseverance examined a rock called Cheyava Falls, which scientists described as one of the most intriguing samples collected on Mars.
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Take a couple of minutes to examine one testicle at a time.
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Both Ghana and England will walk away with a point after Ghana managed to hold off England in a heart-pounding final few minutes of stoppage time.
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Most of the site sits on private land, with a smaller portion managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
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The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
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Many California counties do not employ a single defense investigator who can interview witnesses, review police reports, visit crime scenes and retrieve video surveillance footage.
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The Aman Beverly Hills, currently under construction and expected to open in 2028, will supposedly not only include a full luxe floor for plastic surgery recovery but actual operating rooms, a private garden just for patients and surgeons on call.
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Every day horse carriages are operating in the park is a day the safety of New Yorkers is in jeopardy.
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The race was red-flagged, so crews could clean up the mess and inspect the barriers.
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In one Zooniverse project related to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, volunteers will visually inspect and annotate 2D slitless spectroscopic images from the telescope to observe the redshift of millions of galaxies — the main method used for measuring the expansion of the universe.
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“Oversee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversee. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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