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Recent Examples of superintend Online court records say she has been charged with crimes that include failure to superintend and selling alcohol after legal hours. Ryan Oehrli july 29, Charlotte Observer, 29 July 2025 State law and the City Charter bestow upon the governor the power and duty to superintend the mayor. Christian Browne, New York Daily News, 23 Feb. 2025 Those of us who watched Yellowstone to the last already know the fate of the ranch and the family who superintended it. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2025 The exhibition lays claim to the body as the superintending conceit of Warhol’s corpus—an argument often strained by inclusions here of the Hammer & Sickle (1976) works or allusions to the film Sleep (1964). Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024 To superintend the means by which ideas are spread and debated is to superintend those ideas and debates per se. The Editors, National Review, 6 Sep. 2024 For one thing, there is not that much the superintendent can superintend. Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2024 He was promoted the following year to superintending statistician. IEEE Spectrum, 21 Nov. 2023
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  • Sebastio supervises retail, finance and an in-house team of three designers for product consistency, as the brand was first inspired by his own and his father’s wardrobe.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Exantus was previously permitted to be supervised in Florida upon his release from prison in accordance with an interstate compact, Hall said.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university.
    Cate Charron, IndyStar, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The milestone follows León’s relationship with his manager and business partner, Jorge Juárez, who began overseeing his career nearly two years ago.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • Go birding at River Commons Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will host a morning of bird watching Wednesday at River Commons, a 100-acre tract administered by the Watershed Conservation Resource Center.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Subscribers can also watch on Prime Video or through Amazon Live, which is available on desktop, the Amazon Shopping app and the Amazon Live channel within the Prime Video app.
    Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • In August, a lawsuit accused OpenAI of encouraging a teenager’s suicide, intensifying scrutiny around how ChatGPT handles mental health interactions.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • While there were explosive offensive plays that contributed to this Falcons victory, their defense being able to handle Bills quarterback Josh Allen was just as important at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Monday night.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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  • This means astronauts will have to diagnose, treat, and manage crises without ground support, even if a crew member becomes incapacitated.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The chicken scene generally captures the way Orlean can cast a thoughtful eye over her life’s experiences and still manage to be funny while not dismissing the darts life threw at her.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • Elizabethtown, Kentucky, discovered over 160 largely unregulated recovery homes operating within the city.
    Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Multiple communications and combat roles Established in 2024, Tank Bureau specializes in designing and producing unmanned ground vehicles, operating its own research, manufacturing, and maintenance facilities throughout Ukraine.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 12 Oct. 2025
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  • The ocean regulates our climate, supports global trade, and feeds communities.
    Olivier Wenden, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • American laws aren’t equipped to deal with the fast-moving ambitions of CEO Elon Musk, and Washington doesn’t seem in a hurry to regulate his company.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • But the office had quietly been moving forward, conducting confidential sessions with a grand jury that heard witnesses and resulted last week in the indictment.
    Meena Duerson, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Barbabella wrote in April that after conducting a comprehensive diagnostic, laboratory testing, consultations with 14 specialty consultants, the president demonstrated no abnormalities aside from minor sun damage, recommending a colonoscopy in 2027.
    Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 11 Oct. 2025

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“Superintend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superintend. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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