stewarding

verb

present participle of steward
as in managing
to look after and make decisions about will steward the city's library programs

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stewarding
  1. managing
  2. overseeing
  3. supervising
  4. operating
  5. handling
  6. regulating
  7. controlling
  8. conducting
Verb
  • By contrast, recent restrictions or delays suggest a greater emphasis on managing relations with Beijing and avoiding unnecessary escalation.
    — Ningrong Liu, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • My experience includes managing campaigns, leading teams, and building relationships with community leaders.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of managing
Verb
  • Judge Heather Beato, appointed by DeSantis to the 10th Judicial Circuit in 2020, is overseeing the case, a court docket shows.
    — Justin Garcia, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Instead, the board should function as a concert of great powers, both democratic and autocratic, tasked with managing crises and overseeing and building consensus on matters of global governance.
    — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of overseeing
Verb
  • For ShadowMachine, Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico serve as executive producers, and Musa Brooker serves as supervising director.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The surge in profits has been driven by robust trading in stocks, bonds and currencies, fees from supervising and advising clients’ investments, underwriting initial public offerings and a pickup in mergers and acquisitions.
    — John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of supervising
Verb
  • The test took place aboard the USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier operating in the Pacific Ocean.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The model allows brands to reach customers across cities and markets without bearing the full cost of operating their own stores.
    — Yiling Pan, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of operating
Verb
  • Employee did not wash hands after handling raw food and changing gloves, before handling ready to eat foods.
    — NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • About one-quarter of AAPI adults approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president overall.
    — Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of handling
Verb
  • In the absence of a federal law regulating them, the responsibility falls to local governments, said Ridout, who estimates that about 30 states have some type of rule or requirement regarding AI in political campaigns.
    — Anagilmara Vílchez, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The agency charged with regulating Colorado’s first-in-the-nation legal recreational marijuana market potentially put consumers at risk of using contaminated products, a new state audit found.
    — Christopher Osher, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of regulating
Verb
  • The Houthis ramped up their advance on Taiz last month, after a lightning-fast capture of the port city of Mokha, an area about 130 kilometers (80 miles) away that is vital to controlling shipping through the Red Sea.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • But Meta’s new SEC filing that posted this week shows that’s in part because of the key difference between owning a company and controlling it.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of controlling
Verb
  • Seven in ten CEOs reported conducting strategic risk reviews on a monthly basis, compared to 50% of CIOs.
    — John Kell, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The judge handling last month endorsed a proposal by the suit's plaintiff to notify potential class members to submit claims on the settlement by conducting a four-week-long social media campaign on Facebook and Instagram.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of conducting
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“Stewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stewarding. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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