Thesaurus results for QUARTERBACKED

quarterbacked

verb

past tense of quarterback

as in supervised

to be in charge of she was tapped to quarterback the upcoming gubernatorial campaign

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Recent Examples of quarterbacked Nolan Ryan threw a no-hitter and pitched 173 innings at 44 while Tom Brady quarterbacked the Tampa Bay Bucs to a Super Bowl title at 43. — Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2026 To put that in perspective, New England’s own Drake Maye, who earlier this year quarterbacked the Patriots to the Super Bowl, has about 1 million. — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 17 June 2026 He armchair quarterbacked the Patriots in the Super Bowl in February. — Karen Weintraub, USA Today, 3 May 2026 Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner who quarterbacked Indiana to its first national title, is the consensus favorite for the Raiders. — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026 The litigation ran on for around five years, with the campaign on the family’s side quarterbacked by Beate Arnold, a consultant who had formerly run IT operations for Glock. — Simon Akam, Vanity Fair, 2 Apr. 2026 His greatest success came in 2022 when Cousins quarterbacked the Vikings to a 13-4 record. — CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026 Knutson quarterbacked Smithson Valley to a state championship in 2025, completing 12 of his 21 passing attempts for 160 yards and a touchdown in the title game victory over Frisco Lone Star. — David Eckert, Austin American Statesman, 7 Feb. 2026 But the man who later quarterbacked the BC Lions to a Canadian Grey Cup championship and the Minnesota Vikings into Super Bowl IV also played hoops for the Bears. — Jeff Faraudo, Mercury News, 5 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarterbacked

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City officials said the Daxbots will be supervised at all times and wear high-visibility vests.

— Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 13 July 2026
The complaint claimed the care home company failed to ensure Kasanga’s food was properly prepared or that she was supervised while eating, as well as failing to respond appropriately to the choking.

— Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 9 July 2026

Definition of supervised

Verb

As mayor of Greater Manchester for nine years, Burnham oversaw a city region whose economy has grown at roughly twice the rate of the country as a whole.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 July 2026
Prior to the conflict in the Middle East, the president oversaw consistently lower costs compared with his predecessor.

— Claire Malon, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026

Definition of oversaw

Verb

Each company explicitly named the illness as a material business risk and warned fresh, raw leafy greens handled at its restaurants were at risk for the parasite.

— Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Langley, 27, handled the mishap with ease and slipped into a Baltimore Ravens jersey before picking up her guitar and carrying on with the show at M&T Bank Stadium.

— Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of handled

Verb

That is 22 more than teams managed in Qatar in 2022 and nine more than in the 2018 tournament in Russia — with the caveat that 36 more games have already been played in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 14 July 2026
Rushdie lost an eye and suffered other life-threatening injuries but managed to survive.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 July 2026

Definition of managed

Verb

As the nation steered into wartime and beyond, innumerable new companies would spring up and tailor their own version of the good word.

— Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 15 July 2026
Related Stories The Wonderloom launch was steered by Content Partners’ executive VP Scott Hemming and partner Alphonse Lordo.

— Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 14 July 2026

Definition of steered

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Hivemind, on board the Green Wolf, commanded the aircraft based on threat data from DiSCO, autonomously rerouting follow-on unmanned systems through a safe operating zone without human input, according to a press release.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 19 July 2026
As recidivist would-be escapees, de Boeldieu, Marechal, and Rosenthal are transferred to an impregnable medieval fortress, commanded by Captain von Rauffenstein, now burnt, broken in body, and wearing a neck brace.

— Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 18 July 2026

Definition of commanded

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