superintending

verb

present participle of superintend
1
as in supervising
to be in charge of superintends the construction of all scenery at the summer theater

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

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3
as in watching
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 superintending
  1. supervising
  2. overseeing
  3. watching
  4. handling
  5. managing
  6. operating
  7. regulating
  8. controlling
Verb
  • Officers are working to gather information regarding the circumstances that may have led up to the crash, including who was supervising the children.
    — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
  • Others nominated alongside Swift in that category are executive producers Baz Halpin, Mark Bracco and Linda Gierahn as well as supervising producer Rose-Ellen Galluzzo and line producer Bradley Stein.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 8 July 2026
Definition of supervising
Verb
  • Architect Luis Laplace is overseeing the renovation, continuing the gallery’s practice of adapting historic buildings for contemporary use.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 15 July 2026
  • National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya has been overseeing the CDC most recently.
    — Mike Stobbe, Fortune, 15 July 2026
Definition of overseeing
Verb
  • The guy in a bar in Houston who, when the cameras found Tom Cruise in the stands watching the USA vs Paraguay, stood and applauded.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 18 July 2026
  • This, combined with the sheer horror of many of the crimes committed against the Bowdens, generates a tension in the viewer that makes the unease a young Antosca felt watching the 1962 film feel tame by comparison.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
Definition of watching
Verb
  • Five of the 11 questions reporters asked Spieth that night centered around handling a lead.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • Python, for example, is a popular programming language that is famously smooth at handling integers of any size.
    — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
Definition of handling
Verb
  • By managing computing infrastructure for models, Fireworks does business in the inference cloud market, alongside startups such as Baseten and Together AI.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • Weinberg says the confederation has evolved immensely since then, shifting from simply managing competitions to actively trying to help develop football in the region.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 16 July 2026
Definition of managing
Verb
  • This, even while operating at an annual revenue disadvantage.
    — Mike Griffith, AJC.com, 16 July 2026
  • Following political changes after anti-government protests in 2019, independent bookstores have been operating in an even more challenging environment.
    — Kanis Leung, Fortune, 16 July 2026
Definition of operating
Verb
  • Councilman Tom Flight cast the lone dissenting vote, warning that government should be cautious about regulating the display of art on private property, even when the work is unusually large.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 13 July 2026
  • But even that law is largely focused on ensuring the proper facility and environment for grooming, not regulating groomer technique or experience.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
Definition of regulating
Verb
  • Tate’s case previously included three counts of rape, four counts of actual bodily harm, two counts of human trafficking and one count of controlling prostitution for gain.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC news, 19 July 2026
  • But the computers controlling the countdown called an abort during the Super Heavy booster’s engine startup sequence.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026
Definition of controlling
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