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she was tapped to quarterback the upcoming gubernatorial campaign
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Recent Examples of quarterbacked
Before Sayin took over starting duties, WIll Howard quarterbacked Ohio State to a College Football Playoff National Championship last season.
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Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Miami was coming off a 6-10 season quarterbacked by journeyman fill-in Jay Cutler.
—Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
Nevada is hosting its homecoming this weekend and will induct that 2010 team — quarterbacked by Colin Kaepernick, the Pack went 13-1 — into the Nevada Athletics Hall of Fame.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 24 Oct. 2025
Goff, though, had been to a Super Bowl before joining the Lions; Fields hasn’t quarterbacked a winning team for a full season.
—Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Newton also played immediate successor to Tom Brady in New England and quarterbacked the Patriots to a 7-9 season in 2020.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Head coach Michael Desormeaux quarterbacked Louisiana from 2004-08.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Dart completed 12 of 19 passes for 154 yards and the touchdown, rushed for 24 more yards and quarterbacked three Giants scoring drives.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2025
Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 2 Nov. 2025
Miami was coming off a 6-10 season quarterbacked by journeyman fill-in Jay Cutler.
—Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
Nevada is hosting its homecoming this weekend and will induct that 2010 team — quarterbacked by Colin Kaepernick, the Pack went 13-1 — into the Nevada Athletics Hall of Fame.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 24 Oct. 2025
Goff, though, had been to a Super Bowl before joining the Lions; Fields hasn’t quarterbacked a winning team for a full season.
—Zack Rosenblatt, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Newton also played immediate successor to Tom Brady in New England and quarterbacked the Patriots to a 7-9 season in 2020.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Head coach Michael Desormeaux quarterbacked Louisiana from 2004-08.
—Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
Dart completed 12 of 19 passes for 154 yards and the touchdown, rushed for 24 more yards and quarterbacked three Giants scoring drives.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarterbacked
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One group of suits is being supervised by Kuhl.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
7 Nov. 2025
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Laurie Orlando, who has supervised talent recruitment and strategy at CBS News for nearly a decade, is leaving the Paramount Skydance operation — the latest of the news division’s senior executives to exit as the parent company overhauls its operations under an iconoclastic new editor in chief.—
Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
3 Nov. 2025
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Smith oversaw the department's division of fire prevention and community risk reduction, a job that gave him oversight of arson investigations, including the investigation last year into the blaze that damaged and closed parts of the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge over the Ohio River.—
Aaron Valdez,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
6 Nov. 2025
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In 2023, the judge oversaw a jury trial that Epic won.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
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The Steelers are coming off a 27-20 victory over the Indianapolis Colts, a team that handled the Chargers with relative ease, 38-24, in Week 7.—
Elliott Teaford,
Oc Register,
8 Nov. 2025
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The interiors are handled with more finesse.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Even amid some clunky exposition, Welcome to Derry has at least managed to offer compelling horror set pieces to keep heart rates up.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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In Week 5, Matthew Stafford passed for 389 yards and three touchdowns, but the Rams converted on only four of 10 third downs, and after taking a 17-7 lead into halftime, managed only nine points in the final two quarters and overtime.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Playboy is, of course, the media, lifestyle, consumer products and licensing brand founded by Hugh Hefner, while Hefner Capital is a private investment firm focused on media, entertainment and cultural ventures steered by his son, Cooper Hefner.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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After a pioneering run building a major pay-TV player in Dish, Ergen steered the company through its recent pivot to the wireless business before stepping back from a day-to-day exec role last year.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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The central square is commanded by the Hagia Sophia and Blue Mosque, and the streets hold other imperial Ottoman-era mosques, Byzantine cisterns, and the remains of a hippodrome.—
Katie Nadworny,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Nov. 2025
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Considered a delicacy in parts of Asia, mullet roe commanded a premium price.—
Steve Waters,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Quarterbacked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarterbacked. Accessed 16 Nov. 2025.
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