overseeing 1 of 2

adjective

as in controlling

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overseeing

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verb

present participle of oversee
1
as in supervising
to look after and make decisions about will oversee the new manufacturing division

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2
as in handling
to be in charge of looking for someone to oversee the project from start to finish

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3
as in watching
to take charge of especially on behalf of another oversee the household until Dad gets home

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4
as in reviewing
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 overseeing
Verb
After a cargo plane overshot a runway and killed five people outside Miami International Airport, members of the county board overseeing that facility are considering whether to spend big on a potential safety upgrade. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026 Along the way, Reid confronted several dynasties before overseeing one of his own. — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2026 Boards are becoming increasingly attuned to this in their role of overseeing business continuity and enterprise value. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026 EuroHPC is overseeing the implementation of 19 AI Factories and 13 AI Factory Antennas across Europe, while also developing a European quantum-computing infrastructure that will integrate quantum technologies with conventional supercomputers. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026 So will native reptiles, plants, fish and insects, said Vladimir Roosevelt, Pantheon's operations director, who's overseeing the restoration. — ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026 That soon led to Davis taking a job arranging lectures and seminars and, later, overseeing the organization’s public programming. — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 Researchers face a Catch-22 because committees overseeing clinical trials likely wouldn't allow testing an experimental drug on healthy patients, Bischof said. — Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026 She was supposed to continue overseeing those staff from her perch at the Education Department. — Jonaki Mehta, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overseeing
  1. controlling
  2. supervising
  3. handling
  4. watching
  5. reviewing
  6. managing
  7. operating
  8. examining
Adjective
  • Rivian, still a major non-controlling shareholder, factors into that roadmap too, since its growing fleet of on-road vehicles generates the driving data Also will eventually need to train its own autonomy systems.
    — Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 19 Aug. 2026
  • This has impacted every aspect of his life — sleep, eating habits and his controlling attitude toward me.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 4 July 2026
Definition of controlling
Verb
  • Registrations have to be renewed each year, and solar companies are responsible for supervising the salespeople working on their behalf.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The shape of the work changed, from producing answers to checking them, and from performing tasks to supervising them.
    — Fernando Fainzilber, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of supervising
Verb
  • The robot is designed as a general-purpose platform capable of handling a broad range of applications and improving through self-reinforcement from real-world experience.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The only people who seem to, frankly, are the leaders at Western Michigan, the ones with the biggest complaint about this and the ones who seem to be handling it the most maturely.
    — Will Leitch, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of handling
Verb
  • And Purdy didn’t disappoint the 100,021 fans on hand at Melbourne Cricket Ground or those watching at home.
    — Vic Tafur, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Ramage stopped watching television on September 11 for a while.
    — Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of watching
Verb
  • Details can differ from one report to another, so reviewing only one may leave gaps.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The commission, in court documents, maintains ABC’s lawsuit was premature because regulators simply were in the process of reviewing whether ABC has served the public interest in operating its eight television stations.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of reviewing
Adjective
  • Larry Berg, the co-managing owner of LAFC, was chosen Monday to become the third commissioner in MLS history when Don Garber retires in December.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2026
  • But the data suggests most women aren’t choosing—they’re managing.
    — Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of managing
Verb
  • Manchester City revenues derived from UEFA reports, adjusted to remove 'other operating income' and converted from GBP to EUR at prevailing rate.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The department remains committed to co-operating with all jurisdictions pursuing potential crimes.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of operating
Verb
  • McEvoy, who leads Insulet, the maker of the wearable, tubeless Omnipod insulin pump, said designing better technology requires understanding the details of patients’ days—not simply examining their clinical data.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Lamming’s review looked at more than 350 studies in total, most of which were conducted in mice and other lab models, examining things like lifespan, metabolic health, and cellular aging.
    — Jennifer Byrne, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of examining

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