stewarded

verb

past tense of steward
as in managed
to look after and make decisions about will steward the city's library programs

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stewarded
  1. managed
  2. operated
  3. supervised
  4. handled
  5. controlled
  6. conducted
  7. regulated
  8. oversaw
Verb
  • While daytime staffing at its Sharp Mesa Vista behavioral health hospital already meets requirements, overnight shifts have been managed based on the number of patients in beds and on the severity of their illnesses.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The Old Trafford club are targeting a new left-back to alternate with Luke Shaw, because the 31-year-old’s fitness needs to be managed.
    — James McNicholas, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of managed
Verb
  • Firestar operated a large factory inside Surat’s Special Economic Zone, a duty-free enclave that allowed the company to cut, polish and manufacture jewelry for export markets.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Our navigation system, flood damage reduction projects, and water supply reservoirs are operated and maintained by people most Arkansans will never hear about.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of operated
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
  • The Triton then handled the navigation, sensor employment, onboard processing and reporting associated with the task.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 10 Aug. 2026
  • JPMorgan’s Kinexys network processes more than $7 billion a day and has handled over $4 trillion since launch.
    — Nina Bambysheva, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of handled
Verb
  • Publishers now list their servers in a catalog controlled by a company whose commercial interest is to run those servers on its own runtime.
    — Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The Yankees are owned by Yankee Global Enterprises, a company controlled by businessman Hal Steinbrenner and members of his family.
    — Bloomberg, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of controlled
Verb
  • The district attorney confirmed that a search conducted in Hudson, Massachusetts, Tuesday evening was connected to the investigation.
    — Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Instead of operations aimed at specific individuals, federal agents increasingly conducted sweeps outside of Home Depot storefronts — where day laborers have long gathered to be hired for work.
    — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of conducted
Verb
  • Jason Trost Smarkets founder The first choice, though, would be for Smarkets to run as a prediction markets exchange regulated under the CFTC, Trost said.
    — Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2026
  • This rule finds that because national banks — which are regulated by the federal government — have the power to set their terms, only the federal government can weigh in on those terms.
    — P.R. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of regulated
Verb
  • Harvard oversaw $57 billion as of June 2025, the latest publicly available figure.
    — Janet Lorin, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Hines, 66, appealed unsuccessfully to the governor and the courts, saying that the doctor who oversaw the May execution was unqualified and likely to botch his execution as well.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of oversaw
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