PRESIDING Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

presiding

adjective

as in chief

highest in rank or authority a senator who is the presiding member of the armed services committee

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He was named chief operating officer and relocated to the company’s global headquarters in New York in 2017.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 9 Sep. 2026
Emails sent this year by CPSC chief data officer Elizabeth Puchek said hospitals would need to apply for an exemption from participation or face penalties.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of chief

Adjective

Princess vacations offer supreme ease of travel, eliminating the inconvenience of changing hotels and navigating transportation between cities.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2026
The 56-year-old Khamenei has not been seen in public, or even appeared in video or audio, since Israeli strikes killed his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had been Iran’s supreme leader for some 37 years.

— Lee Keath, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026

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Iran’s foremost vulnerability to sanctions and the blockade remains its persistent need for imports, which totaled $17 billion in the first five months of this Iranian calendar year beginning in March.

— Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Foreign Affairs, 8 Sep. 2026
Asked about their firm’s primary hurdle in managing the current trade landscape, the vast majority (57 percent) said policy uncertainty, like tariffs changing with little notice, as their foremost challenge.

— Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of foremost

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Founded in 1979, El-Funoun is one of Palestine's leading traditional dance companies, will present a free Dabke dance workshop to close out the festival.

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Sep. 2026
Billed as a workplace comedy, The Varnell Hill Show marks Davidson’s first turn as a bona fide leading man.

— Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of leading

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The former England youth and then 10-time senior Ghana international is still only 25 and has over 100 games of Premier League experience with Chelsea and Brighton.

— David Ornstein, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The company officially opened the new Austin Innovation Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Silicon Labs senior leaders and employees, as well as representatives from the State of Texas.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of senior

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New Hampshire’s premier Senate race is on after party leaders secured their top choices in what’s shaping up to be one of the tightest contests in the entire country come November.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Positioning the eggs upright with their narrow tips facing the top plate yielded the best results.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of top

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Sharing what individual drones cannot see One of the principal advantages of a swarm is its ability to combine information from multiple platforms.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
Luke Dittrich’s September 2007 Esquire investigation is the principal account on which Primetime is based.

— Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026

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