preside over
phrasal verb
presided over; presiding over; presides over
1
: to be in charge of something (such as a meeting or organization)
The vice president presided over the meeting.
The Chief Justice presides over the Supreme Court.
He has presided over the company for 15 years.
2
: to be in charge of a country, company, etc., during (a particular time or activity)
She presided over a period of relative peace and prosperity.
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Not a bit of it: in fact, his father presided over the Mayer family table at night wearing a yarmulke and pursued his own obsessions as a Torah scholar by day.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
An outsize circular fire pit presides over a seasonal lagoon that steadily grows as the famed floodwaters arrive, flowing a thousand miles from the Angolan highlands to the delta from May to September.
—Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Accordingly, Abbas has presided over a period in which many of the nascent institutions created by Oslo are, at best, brittle.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is presiding over an unmitigated disaster, and everything about the U.S.- and Israel-backed group’s failure was entirely predictable.
—Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
An outsize circular fire pit presides over a seasonal lagoon that steadily grows as the famed floodwaters arrive, flowing a thousand miles from the Angolan highlands to the delta from May to September.
—Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Accordingly, Abbas has presided over a period in which many of the nascent institutions created by Oslo are, at best, brittle.
—Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is presiding over an unmitigated disaster, and everything about the U.S.- and Israel-backed group’s failure was entirely predictable.
—Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025
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