quarterbacking

present participle of quarterback

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Recent Examples of quarterbacking Jalen Milroe is set to get extended looks quarterbacking the Seattle Seahawks. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarterbacking
Verb
  • Members of a German team that had manufactured the cross were present, supervising Catalan workers who were preparing to install it.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, and Charlie Plummer star as some of the young boys in this gnarly competition while Mark Hamill is the Major, the menacing officer supervising the walk.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • But Rinzel seems uniquely well-suited to handling it.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • As their team and systems scale, so too will their ability to serve multi-market investors who want a unified team handling all of their short-term rental assets.
    Matt Emma, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI has hired Mike Liberatore, former finance chief at Elon Musk's xAI, to be the artificial intelligence startup's business finance officer, responsible for overseeing its massive infrastructure spending.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025
  • All three defendants have asked Circuit Judge Shawn Johnson, who is overseeing the case, to disqualify Gates as well.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • For many leaders, the most significant shift in leadership is not about managing bigger projects or larger teams.
    Matthew C. Meade, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Despite daunting market conditions, America’s youngest generation of adults is managing to break into the housing market in growing numbers.
    Sara Chernikoff, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Quarterbacking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarterbacking. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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