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
  • Keeping her husband happy yet oblivious—managing his baby fever with staged fake miscarriages—only goes so far when Martha begins suffering an inexplicable illness that culminates in an impossible pregnancy.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The office of the CFO can spend less time managing work and more time interpreting information and making decisions that improve business performance.
    — Ari Widlansky, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of managing
Verb
  • Having just been named to the hefty position of co-chair and chief content officer for Skydance DTC — overseeing both HBO Max and Paramount+, Casey Bloys is staying put.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Bloys will be tasked with overseeing a sprawling streaming empire, one that will be among the biggest in the world.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of overseeing
Verb
  • Staff trained here will essentially build careers investigating misconduct, enforcing military regulations, and supervising officers.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
  • At this level, your people stop supervising tasks and start supervising systems.
    — David Cozzens, Forbes.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of supervising
Verb
  • More than 40,000 Rivian electric delivery vans were operating in Amazon’s network by 2026, up from more than 30,000 at the end of 2025.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Leaders may learn the importance of listening while operating within decision processes that leave little room for employee influence.
    — Gwen Mdinaradze, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of operating
Verb
  • LinkerBot says its brushless motors and worm-gear transmission support fine movements for applications such as precision assembly and handling fragile objects.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The technology, which is capable of handling complex on-demand production at scale, promises EU brands a more sustainable and secure supply of clothes for a total cost that is comparable with outsourcing production to Asia.
    — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of handling
Verb
  • Dozens of states responded by regulating or banning impairing hemp products.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026
  • International cooperation on regulating the use of potentially dangerous technology has been the norm since the late 19th century when chemical and explosive weapons first hit the scene.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of regulating
Verb
  • After controlling the first half, Ohio State blew the lead in the second, losing 24-23.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2026
  • Neuralink says the approach can make those signals more stable and useful for controlling computers.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of controlling
Verb
  • Authorities are monitoring air quality and hotspots, with the government conducting cloud seeding when conditions permit to alleviate the situation.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026
  • The company instead explained this was likely speculators conducting trades off of arbitrage, where the spot price of a cryptocurrency is moving on a different exchange and is off slightly from where a market maker’s original order was.
    — Davis Giangiulio,Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of conducting
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“Stewarding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stewarding. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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