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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
  • Suzuki lacked managing and coaching experience when former Angels general manager Perry Minasian hired him in October 2025.
    — Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • All four founders will serve as managing partners of Time Zone Capital.
    — Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of managing
Verb
  • La Strada had served for 14 years as the Pettis County clerk, overseeing local elections, when Hoskins hired him as the state's election integrity director in January 2025.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Umbrella Entertainment is handling the film’s Australia-New Zealand theatrical release, with Blue Finch Films overseeing global sales.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of overseeing
Verb
  • Registrations have to be renewed each year, and solar companies are responsible for supervising the salespeople working on their behalf.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The shape of the work changed, from producing answers to checking them, and from performing tasks to supervising them.
    — Fernando Fainzilber, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of supervising
Verb
  • Manchester City revenues derived from UEFA reports, adjusted to remove 'other operating income' and converted from GBP to EUR at prevailing rate.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The department remains committed to co-operating with all jurisdictions pursuing potential crimes.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of operating
Verb
  • The merchants handling this well didn’t necessarily predict Open USD or the PACE Act specifically.
    — Dimitri Akhrin, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
  • At the end of the day, this locker room is all about handling adversity.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of handling
Verb
  • Hinojosa's platform focuses on affordability, public education, and regulating data centers.
    — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The request to Congress would also include regulating sports agents and allowing conferences to pool broadcast rights.
    — Jim Turner, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of regulating
Verb
  • Western Michigan won the rushing battle and dominated time of possession, controlling the ball for more than 40 minutes.
    — Austin Meek, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • These structures are important for controlling movement and other functions.
    — Claudia Metzler-Baddeley, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of controlling
Verb
  • In Palembang, the capital city of South Sumatra province, schools from kindergarten to junior high were ordered to start conducting classes online Wednesday under an emergency measure.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
  • In the 1950s and 1960s, the aerospace industry found eggshells’ resistance to shattering to be a useful model when conducting failure analysis studies of the metal shells used to build airplanes.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of conducting
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“Stewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stewarding. Accessed 16 Sep. 2026.

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