Thesaurus results for PRESIDE

preside (over)

verb

pri-ˈzīd

Definition of preside (over)

as in to rule

to exercise authority or power over from 1923 to 1948 Palestine was presided over by Great Britain under a mandate granted by the League of Nations

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as in to operate

to look after and make decisions about he presides over a vast communications empire

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Last month, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the 4th Circuit had prematurely halted the rule, finding that the FCC must issue a decision on the Democratic candidates’ petition for review before the appeals court can get involved.

— Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
Mexico was struggling with debt crises, declining energy revenues, and the related breakdown of the ruling party’s half-century-old corporatist model, which had fostered a centralized, closed economy.

— Robert B. Zoellick, Foreign Affairs, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of rule

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This week, SpaceX moved one step closer to its goal of building its direct-to-device Starlink Mobile service after the FCC approved the aerospace company’s application to deploy and operate 15,000 next-generation Starlink satellites.

— David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 9 Oct. 2026
Wearable sensors could aid therapy The researchers envision garments that let users control video game characters or operate robots remotely.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of operate

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American accounts for about 90% of CLT’s flights, but the lease also governs Delta, Frontier, Southwest and United.

— Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2026
Instead, Warped Alloy is designed to interfere with the protocols governing how communications systems operate.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of govern

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The main idea of the company is to automate parts of these missions so personnel can concentrate on operational decisions rather than manually managing every aspect of a drone’s flight or sensor operation.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2026
Graham’s poetry—as readers of The New York Review will know—somehow manages to reckon with the whole spectrum of human existence in the 2020s.

— Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of manage

Verb

An engineer may have no human direct reports but still direct five agents, and a finance professional may supervise an agentic workflow.

— Keith Ferrazzi, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
At least three employees supervised by Perera have filed bullying complaints with DIR’s Office of Equity and Risk.

— Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of supervise

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The list of senior executives did not answer the question of who would oversee the old Paramount and Warner Bros.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Florida has the nation’s busiest death chamber DeSantis, who leaves office in January, oversaw 19 executions in 2025, more than any other Florida governor in a single year since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

— David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of oversee

Verb

The regions of the brain that control emotion and memory, like the amygdala and hippocampus, also function differently during this altered state.

— Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Oct. 2026
Which team’s backfield will help their team control the clock and potentially win the game?

— OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of control

Verb

In Congress, crypto companies are pushing for market-structure rules, AI firms are battling over how Washington will regulate their rapidly expanding industry, and sports-betting operators are confronting regulatory fights.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Semaglutide, sold as Ozempic and Wegovy, is a synthetic peptide designed to mimic GLP-1, which helps regulate satiety.

— Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026

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