stewarding

present participle of steward

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • The strategy is being driven by the conviction that the future of AI belongs to autonomous agents capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks — such as booking travel or managing calendars — rather than simply answering queries.
    Amedeo Goria, Fortune, 7 June 2026
  • Appearing on Fox News, Lankford said the nation’s top intelligence post requires a leader with deep experience managing sensitive national security matters and suggested Pulte’s background raises legitimate questions.
    Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 7 June 2026
Verb
  • The chief planning officer is a key figure at most major commercial airlines, overseeing management of some of the most intricate aspects of air travel.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 6 June 2026
  • The governor issued an executive order instructing the state agency overseeing a program that issues tax incentives for data centers to pause the program beginning July 1.
    Jack O'Connor, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2026
Verb
  • Instead of acting as intermediaries, humans focus on defining policies, supervising system behavior and handling exceptions.
    Krupesh Bhat, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • The defendant, 36, who has not been publicly identified, is accused of assaulting children while supervising them in bathrooms, during lunch breaks and in after-school care between August 2024 and April 2025.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 May 2026
Verb
  • Sudden loss of contact Before communication stopped, telemetry showed the spacecraft operating normally.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
  • Martin and Taylor Grant have lost their California commercial fishing licenses indefinitely, while Gilmer Grant is now prohibited from owning or operating any commercial fishing vessel in the state.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Pasadena police will be handling the perimeter and directing pedestrians and traffic away from the training area.
    Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
  • Be careful when handling debris that may have blown into your yard.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 June 2026
Verb
  • Such a drone boat is supposedly capable of continuous, autonomous loiter operations in which the Corsair maintains its position while autonomously regulating power consumption and only engaging its engine when needed, according to a Saronic blog post.
    Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
  • The court’s abdication of its modern responsibility for supervising electoral democracy seems to rest on the naive belief that democracy will succeed in regulating itself.
    Noah Feldman, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
Verb
  • And there’s a chance the Giants vote against Sacramento as an expansion site because the Giants want to continue controlling the market.
    Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
  • As with minimizing soil disturbance, this, too, helps tremendously with controlling erosion, increasing the carbon content of soil and conserving moisture.
    Special to The Denver Post, Denver Post, 29 May 2026
Verb
  • Johnson County is working with an outside agency to collect ridership data, demographic data and survey responses along with conducting a peer analysis in order to present a case for making the shuttle permanent.
    Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026
  • Rather than conducting sweeping layoffs, Karp told analysts Palantir plans to largely freeze hiring and use AI to multiply employee productivity.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 9 June 2026
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“Stewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stewarding. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.

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