presided (over)

verb

past tense of preside (over)
1
as in ruled
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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2
as in managed
to look after and make decisions about he presides over a vast communications empire

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for presided (over)
  1. ruled
  2. managed
  3. governed
  4. supervised
  5. operated
  6. conducted
  7. regulated
  8. controlled
Verb
  • Possessing a Midwestern accent, Calvin Klein dresses, Black American skin and hair care products, and a butter-pecan skin tone, Ericka quickly wins over the crew Paulina has ruled for years.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026
  • In the Chevron case, the Supreme Court later ruled 8-0 in favor of the oil companies’ bid to move a lawsuit seeking damages for coastline damage caused by oil production in Louisiana from state court to federal court.
    — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of ruled
Verb
  • SpaceX managed to salvage the last Starship from the Indian Ocean in July.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
  • To date, The Tower has managed more than 10,000 group sales leads and helped facilitate millions of dollars in theatrical group sales revenue across multiple film campaigns.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of managed
Verb
  • Integration initiatives should be governed against the M&A business case to ensure the execution milestones are tracked against the value in the deal thesis, not just deadlines.
    — Tipu Usha Vaithee Swaran, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Having a single board means that all appeals and applications would be governed by the same logic.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of governed
Verb
  • Klein not only wrote the score but co-wrote some of the songs and supervised others, bouncing ideas back and forth with Anders and Rachtman.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 29 Sep. 2026
  • When Hannah-Jones asked an aide why the children weren’t being supervised, she was told there wasn’t enough staff.
    — Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of supervised
Verb
  • In response to the renaming of the theater, a number of independent theaters across France symbolically operated under the banner of René Vautier on Friday, in a show of solidarity for the cinema and its staff.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The company has operated a Green Apron Creator Program, paying baristas to create social media content during dedicated shifts.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of operated
Verb
  • The new estimates update older research to investigate cancer and infections that was conducted in 2018.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Early interactions were conducted without rigid boundary definitions, which implicitly permitted her to adopt the primary identity.
    — Terry Oroszi, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of conducted
Verb
  • Emissions aren’t directly regulated yet for the sector, which contributes about 26% of the state’s methane pollution.
    — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The American Kratom Association, an industry lobbying group, asserts that it is regulated under a looser dietary supplement law.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of regulated
Verb
  • In commercial orchards apple maggots are commonly controlled with insecticides targeting adult flies.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Hurts scored on a quarterback sneak as time expired in the first half, but Chicago (2-1) controlled the final two periods.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of controlled
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