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as in operated
to look after and make decisions about
will oversee the new manufacturing division
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as in supervised
to be in charge of
looking for someone to oversee the project from start to finish
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as in watched
to take charge of especially on behalf of another
oversee the household until Dad gets home
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as in examined
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 overseen
The president is one three members of a leadership council that has overseen Iran since Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the war’s opening airstrikes.
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ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
The project is being overseen by the Winchester Housing Partnership in Winsted, an arm of the Northwest Senior Housing Corporation.
—Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
Since leading a 2024 effort to combine Paramount with Skydance Media, the younger Ellison has overseen steep cuts at CBS News and acquired The Free Press, a right-of-center media group, and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as CBS News editor-in-chief.
—Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
The soil has been used at Sumner Peck Ranch, a 76-acre site north of Fresno overseen by the San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
Then-technical director Edu had overseen a radical overhaul of the recruitment department in 2020, with several redundancies leading to the formation of a smaller, leaner team.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
Superintendents were previously overseen by a singular deputy chancellor.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
But while those services are overseen by Holland, Glasgow reports to Ellison and not Holland.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
Their parents established a studio in their hometown that was overseen by their mother after their father’s early demise.
—Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
ABC News, 8 Mar. 2026
The project is being overseen by the Winchester Housing Partnership in Winsted, an arm of the Northwest Senior Housing Corporation.
—Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
Since leading a 2024 effort to combine Paramount with Skydance Media, the younger Ellison has overseen steep cuts at CBS News and acquired The Free Press, a right-of-center media group, and installed its founder, Bari Weiss, as CBS News editor-in-chief.
—Rodney Ho, AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
The soil has been used at Sumner Peck Ranch, a 76-acre site north of Fresno overseen by the San Joaquin River Parkway and Conservation Trust.
—Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2026
Then-technical director Edu had overseen a radical overhaul of the recruitment department in 2020, with several redundancies leading to the formation of a smaller, leaner team.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
Superintendents were previously overseen by a singular deputy chancellor.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 5 Mar. 2026
But while those services are overseen by Holland, Glasgow reports to Ellison and not Holland.
—Josef Adalian, Vulture, 5 Mar. 2026
Their parents established a studio in their hometown that was overseen by their mother after their father’s early demise.
—Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overseen
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The strikes have targeted at least 123 headquarters, barracks and local bases operated by Iran’s paramilitary organizations, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Basij militia.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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Mostly out of necessity, Ukraine developed cheap interceptor drones known as the Sting system, which are operated by pilots who can guide them to crash into Shahed drones, forcing them to explode.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
7 Mar. 2026
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Huffman was also sentenced to 250 hours of community service and supervised release for one year.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
4 Mar. 2026
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However, a hospital staff member reported that, in February, 2025, Adams asked the staff member to falsify about 25 documents claiming to have supervised medical procedures dating back months.—
Beth Warren,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Mar. 2026
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Anyone who has watched the last decade of merger mania in Hollywood has good reason to be skeptical.—
Lucas Shaw,
Bloomberg,
9 Mar. 2026
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Millions of viewers watched with a mix of fascination and disbelief, but what happens to a person when they’re cut off from their reflection for three months?—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
9 Mar. 2026
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Because the diagnosis was so unusual, zoo staff examined the bodies of 64 free-ranging roof rats that had either been euthanized in the course of regular pest control or found dead on the property.—
Susanne Rust
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Mar. 2026
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The test examined everything from the launch sequence to the deployment and separation of the reentry vehicles.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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In addition to the raw numbers, the county calculated deaths per 100,000 using an average of the 2024 and 2025 estimates from the annual point-in-time count conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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Officers froze the area around the vehicle and conducted limited evacuations of buildings in the vicinity while the department's bomb squad assessed the device.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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October 23 – November 21 Today must be handled one thing at a time.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
6 Mar. 2026
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Thursday was a momentous day for the district, with teachers demonstrating at campuses, the district calling for a return to negotiations for union leaders and parents trying to determine whether to send their children to school as substitutes handled classroom duties.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
5 Mar. 2026
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And yet, Trump has also managed to avoid complex questions about those issues — the most pressing before his administration — and despite Democrats and some of his own supporters lashing out over them.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Gibb managed to get to 17 points, but finished just 6 of 22 from the field.—
Steven Johnson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
7 Mar. 2026
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South Korea has reportedly reviewed whether to introduce an oil price cap for the first time in 30 years, according to Yonhap News.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
9 Mar. 2026
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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.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Overseen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseen. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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