PRESIDED (OVER) Synonyms: 54 Similar Words

presided (over)

verb

past tense of preside (over)

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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to look after and make decisions about he presides over a vast communications empire

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But the review team should never have allowed the touchdown to stand, because the whistle blew on the play to signal that Bachmeier had been ruled down.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2026
Means ruled earlier this year that Kay could introduce new details pertaining to the evidence that led to his 2022 conviction.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

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Deckhand Matt may just be the most audacious toe-stepper to debut in this franchise since Alesia, who, in the last season of Down Under, managed to rearrange the interior team according to her own proclivities.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2026
This looming ban — slipped into a sweeping budget bill passed by Congress last year — was set to go into effect this November before a bipartisan coalition of senators managed to punt the deadline by a month, to December 11.

— Sarah Owermohle, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2026

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The white South African group governed the nation for decades under a brutal system of segregation known as apartheid, which kept the Black majority an impoverished underclass until the system was dismantled in 1994.

— Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 5 Nov. 2026
Unlike conventional computer chips that process data as standard binary switches, quantum processors rely on physical circuits governed by quantum physics.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026

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Co-founder Nemmert supervised the build of Lokia’s operating system (Lokia OS) and runs the company’s operations and production side.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2026
In mid-October Reliable’s software taxied, took off and landed a Cessna Grand Caravan, a single-engine turboprop plane, at Albuquerque’s main airport while a pilot supervised from company headquarters in California, more than 700 miles away.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026

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Threats were also made against a Prague-to-Bucharest, Romania, flight operated by Romanian carrier Tarom, and a Ryanair flight from the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, to Rome.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026
The complication is that about 95% of the world’s 46,000 McDonald’s restaurants are owned and operated by franchisees — and some have pushed back against a proposal that could require $650,000 to $800,000 of investment per store.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2026

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In an October poll conducted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, co-sponsored by The Times, Bass erased an 11-point gap with Raman.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
The rituals were conducted in an effort to restore stability after events such as a famine or drought.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of conducted

Verb

Buying into Smack is a legitimate investment regulated by the SEC.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Nov. 2026
There is currently a split among federal courts as to whether Kalshi, Polymarket and other companies can be regulated by states’ sports betting laws or whether federal law for commodities preempts states.

— Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of regulated

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She was expected to satisfy the white executives who controlled her career, the Black audiences who wanted better representation, and her own ambitions as an actress.

— Serena Turner, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026
Democrats have controlled the comptroller’s office every year since 1975.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2026

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