superintended

verb

past tense of superintend
1
as in supervised
to be in charge of superintends the construction of all scenery at the summer theater

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2
as in operated
to look after and make decisions about homeschooling parents who superintend their children's education

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3
as in oversaw
to take charge of especially on behalf of another whoever's superintending the warehouse will know what's been delivered today

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superintended
  1. supervised
  2. operated
  3. oversaw
  4. handled
  5. managed
  6. watched
  7. conducted
  8. controlled
Verb
  • Becoming a therapist requires years of education, supervised practice, licensing examinations and often substantial student debt.
    — Wayne Lonstein, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Last month, Kim supervised tests of a nuclear-capable cruise missile and other weapons aboard a new 5,000-ton destroyer.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of supervised
Verb
  • Firestar operated a large factory inside Surat’s Special Economic Zone, a duty-free enclave that allowed the company to cut, polish and manufacture jewelry for export markets.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Our navigation system, flood damage reduction projects, and water supply reservoirs are operated and maintained by people most Arkansans will never hear about.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of operated
Verb
  • To highlight and quantify the threat, Moore oversaw two large-scale scans.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Those figures, however, trouble Ian von Lindern, who oversaw lead cleanup at an Idaho Superfund site for more than 30 years.
    — Chris Bowling, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of oversaw
Verb
  • The Strait of Hormuz — which handled around one-fifth of global oil supply before the war — has seen traffic drop to a trickle with sporadic increase in ship transits on positive headlines.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
  • What expressiveness in the robot changed in participants was how their brains handled the moment.
    — Yigit Topoglu, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of handled
Verb
  • Each step might hit a different model on different hardware managed by a different team.
    — Srikanta Datta, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The Pats have managed his reps in an attempt to keep him healthy.
    — Chad Graff, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of managed
Verb
  • That’s when the north grounds of President's Park were thronged with booths, and attending crowds watched horse racing and cockfighting, according to the White House Historical Association.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • At the funeral of one of the hostages, drummer Yotam Haim, Fishof watched Yotam’s brother Tuval Haim play a drum solo before placing a pair of sticks on his grave.
    — K.J. Yossman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of watched
Verb
  • Citizen tips and information from Airway Heights police officers and Spokane County sheriff’s deputies who responded to the initial call and conducted evacuations helped lead investigators to Farinacci, the sheriff’s office said.
    — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Earlier tests establish technical foundation The fabrication program follows accelerated irradiation tests conducted at Idaho National Laboratory’s Advanced Test Reactor in the United States.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of conducted
Verb
  • Its infrared search and track data fed directly into an onboard AI agent that controlled the X-62A and guided it into tactical intercept positions.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Every woman, child, and man alive was out here grinding all day every day except on Lincoln’s Birthday in death-trap packing plants controlled by a five-man syndicate called the Beef Trust.
    — Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of controlled
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