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
  • Harston is also one of the Screaming Marys, a performance collective managed by Screaming Alley, which regularly hosts workshops in everything from burlesque to lip-syncing – and previously did Jackson’s drag king course.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Those came when Madrid’s Champions League match at Benfica (then managed by Mourinho) was stopped after the Brazilian alleged opposition winger Gianluca Prestianni racially abused him.
    — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of managed
Verb
  • Charter schools are public schools and receive public funding, but they are privately operated under district oversight.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Disney will also provide operational oversight though the new park will be operated by Miral which is contracting Disney's Imagineers – architects named after their imaginative use of engineering – to design it.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of operated
Verb
  • Bills tight end Dalton Kincaid summoned a staffer to repair a troubling divot, while linebacker Terrel Bernard supervised.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The fish are raised in ponds fed with river water that flows off the Gombori mountains, monitored constantly to ensure proper egg development, and supervised until just the right time arrives for harvesting, salting, and packaging.
    — Felipe Riccio, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of supervised
Verb
  • The administration argues that some of its functions could be handled by private companies.
    — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Negotiations for the sales attachment were handled by Ariel and Ehud Bleiberg for Bleiberg Entertainment and by Miriam Segal for Good Films Collective.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of handled
Verb
  • The now 34-year-old claimed that Debra controlled every aspect of her personal and financial life until her mother died due to cancer in 2013.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The siblings’ father, Jerry Buss, controlled the team from 1979 until his death in 2013.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of controlled
Verb
  • Two autopsies have been conducted, but neither have yielded a definitive public explanation for Nolan’s manner of death.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The vote, conducted by conference call, does not close the books entirely on the sale.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of conducted
Verb
  • Moreover, many of the road trip’s corporate sponsors—including Boeing, United Airlines, Royal Caribbean, Toyota, Shell, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Lyft—are regulated by the department Duffy oversees.
    — Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • At the same time, researchers have begun to ask whether autonomous clinical AI should be licensed and regulated more like clinicians than conventional medical devices.
    — Arya Rao, STAT, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of regulated
Verb
  • Around the same time, Gonzalez Rogers oversaw an antitrust case, involving allegations that Apple unfairly blocked users from playing music from sources other than iTunes and shut out competitors.
    — Jeffrey Kopp, CNBC, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Stuart Evey, who oversaw who oversaw Getty Oil’s investments outside its core oil business, persuaded the company's board to invest $10 million for an 85% stake.
    — Nicole Kraft, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of oversaw
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