as in superintendent
a person who watches and directs the work of other people in order to be sure that a job is done correctly
She was named overseer of new product development. government/industry overseers
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Recent Examples of overseer
The overseers of funds and investments for California, Illinois and half a dozen other states cite Tesla’s sagging stock, disappointing first-quarter deliveries and surge of trade-ins by vehicle owners as being among their causes for concern.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
The company has also pledged to work transparently with an independent overseer appointed by the court to evaluate the deal’s effects on consumer privacy, with a report due to the bankruptcy court in June.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
After all, the filmmaker is Portuguese and there’s a brutal history between his native country and Mozambique, a colony of Portugal until 1975, a country whose official language remains that of its former imperial overseers.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
Where Chelsea’s domestic overseers have been largely acquiescent to their accounting ingenuity, the same can’t be said abroad.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
The company has also pledged to work transparently with an independent overseer appointed by the court to evaluate the deal’s effects on consumer privacy, with a report due to the bankruptcy court in June.
—Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
After all, the filmmaker is Portuguese and there’s a brutal history between his native country and Mozambique, a colony of Portugal until 1975, a country whose official language remains that of its former imperial overseers.
—Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
Where Chelsea’s domestic overseers have been largely acquiescent to their accounting ingenuity, the same can’t be said abroad.
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overseer
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But a longstanding argument against any updates to the sculpture, said Dan Wenk, the former superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, is that the piece of art is already finished, visually and rhetorically.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
5 July 2025
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Adam Friday resigned as acting superintendent for the sanitation department, effective June 3, two weeks after the incident with Street Commissioner Brandon Downey, town records show.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
4 July 2025
Noun
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The manager is responsible for overseeing the operations and production of these areas.—
Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado
July 10,
Sacbee.com,
10 July 2025
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With no small amount of pride, property managers associated with Madison Equities led tours of the Degree of Honor building in 2021, showing off the former office building’s full-scale conversion into 78 housing units.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
10 July 2025
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Gartner was Rodriguez-Kennedy’s immediate supervisor.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 July 2025
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In Cincinnati, supervisors at NIOSH’s two local sites – both of which investigate claims of injury and illness and develop programs to prevent them – were put on administrative last Tuesday.—
Patricia Gallagher Newberry,
The Enquirer,
3 July 2025
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The Harrods pop-up will run from July 21 until Aug. 27, and will stock the Lucky capsule, which was conceived by Maria Grazia Chiuri, the former creative director of women’s collections who stepped down in May after nearly a decade at the brand.—
Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
1 July 2025
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Danny Ramon, director of intelligence at supply chain risk management provider Overhaul, said that holiday weekends typically see cargo theft rates spiking by 50 to 100 percent.—
Meghan Hall,
Sourcing Journal,
1 July 2025
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In a crucial leadership change last September, Starbucks appointed Molly Liu, former chief of Starbucks China's digital division, to head its business in the country.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
9 July 2025
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The chief, who is known to bristle at direction from the board, said some of the improvements Hahn asked for were already happening.—
Rebecca Ellis
Follow,
Los Angeles Times,
9 July 2025
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“Overseer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseer. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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