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 In the six years since Joe Burrow quarterbacked one of this century’s best teams to a national title, LSU is 44-29. — Matt Baker, New York Times, 17 July 2026 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 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
  1. supervised
  2. oversaw
  3. handled
  4. managed
  5. steered
  6. commanded
Verb
  • Becoming a therapist requires years of education, supervised practice, licensing examinations and often substantial student debt.
    — Wayne Lonstein, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Last month, Kim supervised tests of a nuclear-capable cruise missile and other weapons aboard a new 5,000-ton destroyer.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of supervised
Verb
  • To highlight and quantify the threat, Moore oversaw two large-scale scans.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Those figures, however, trouble Ian von Lindern, who oversaw lead cleanup at an Idaho Superfund site for more than 30 years.
    — Chris Bowling, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of oversaw
Verb
  • The Strait of Hormuz — which handled around one-fifth of global oil supply before the war — has seen traffic drop to a trickle with sporadic increase in ship transits on positive headlines.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
  • What expressiveness in the robot changed in participants was how their brains handled the moment.
    — Yigit Topoglu, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of handled
Verb
  • Each step might hit a different model on different hardware managed by a different team.
    — Srikanta Datta, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The Pats have managed his reps in an attempt to keep him healthy.
    — Chad Graff, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of managed
Verb
  • People got angry at ESPN — some for allowing Rodgers on air at all, and others because he was steered away from discussing the Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel scandal on air.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Advocates who filed the lawsuit are concerned that people with disabilities will be steered toward or coerced into using this option.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of steered
Verb
  • Yet for every one of these tremendous leaps forward engineered by Gorbachev, Putin has commanded a sensational step backward.
    — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The officials said Issa, who once commanded Syria's military 17th Division, went to the Syrian embassy in Beirut on Friday for some paperwork.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of commanded

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“Quarterbacked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarterbacked. Accessed 11 Aug. 2026.

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