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
  • Bills tight end Dalton Kincaid summoned a staffer to repair a troubling divot, while linebacker Terrel Bernard supervised.
    — Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
  • The fish are raised in ponds fed with river water that flows off the Gombori mountains, monitored constantly to ensure proper egg development, and supervised until just the right time arrives for harvesting, salting, and packaging.
    — Felipe Riccio, Robb Report, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of supervised
Verb
  • Charter schools are public schools and receive public funding, but they are privately operated under district oversight.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Disney will also provide operational oversight though the new park will be operated by Miral which is contracting Disney's Imagineers – architects named after their imaginative use of engineering – to design it.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of operated
Verb
  • Harvard oversaw $57 billion as of June 2025, the latest publicly available figure.
    — Janet Lorin, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Hines, 66, appealed unsuccessfully to the governor and the courts, saying that the doctor who oversaw the May execution was unqualified and likely to botch his execution as well.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of oversaw
Verb
  • The administration argues that some of its functions could be handled by private companies.
    — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Negotiations for the sales attachment were handled by Ariel and Ehud Bleiberg for Bleiberg Entertainment and by Miriam Segal for Good Films Collective.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of handled
Verb
  • Harston is also one of the Screaming Marys, a performance collective managed by Screaming Alley, which regularly hosts workshops in everything from burlesque to lip-syncing – and previously did Jackson’s drag king course.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Those came when Madrid’s Champions League match at Benfica (then managed by Mourinho) was stopped after the Brazilian alleged opposition winger Gianluca Prestianni racially abused him.
    — Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of managed
Verb
  • As his daughter operated the wine press, Gobillard watched the year's first juice flow with a mix of excitement and anxiety.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Certain men have reportedly watched CCTV footage of their stupefied selves inexplicably helping their robbers gut their apartments of possessions.
    — Mattha Busby, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of watched
Verb
  • Two autopsies have been conducted, but neither have yielded a definitive public explanation for Nolan’s manner of death.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The vote, conducted by conference call, does not close the books entirely on the sale.
    — Maury Brown, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of conducted
Verb
  • The now 34-year-old claimed that Debra controlled every aspect of her personal and financial life until her mother died due to cancer in 2013.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The siblings’ father, Jerry Buss, controlled the team from 1979 until his death in 2013.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of controlled
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