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as in oversight
the duty or function of watching or guarding for the sake of proper direction or control
one of your responsibilities will be the supervision of all fund-raising activities for the club
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as in management
the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something
one of the senior editors took over supervision of the project while the editor-in-chief was on maternity leave
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Recent Examples of supervision
The jarring spectacle drew a military review, the supervision of the Kentucky’s lieutenant governor, tens of thousands of spectators and even well wishes from then President Calvin Coolidge.
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Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Prosecutor says Black 'slipped through the cracks' of parole
In January, Black completed a nine-and-a-half-year prison sentence and was under state supervision in a halfway house with an ankle monitor, officials said.
—David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Israel says Hamas steals and sells food from the U.N. and other traditional aid agencies, and that GHF distributes food to civilians under Israeli military supervision without Hamas involvement.
—Daniel Estrin, NPR, 26 June 2025
While her daughter sometimes runs alone with classmates and under the supervision of school coaches, at-home runs are a different matter.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
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Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Prosecutor says Black 'slipped through the cracks' of parole
In January, Black completed a nine-and-a-half-year prison sentence and was under state supervision in a halfway house with an ankle monitor, officials said.
—David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
Israel says Hamas steals and sells food from the U.N. and other traditional aid agencies, and that GHF distributes food to civilians under Israeli military supervision without Hamas involvement.
—Daniel Estrin, NPR, 26 June 2025
While her daughter sometimes runs alone with classmates and under the supervision of school coaches, at-home runs are a different matter.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for supervision
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Vaccine developers can profit from their products, but designing and testing a vaccine is a lot more work than selling a plant flavonol called quercetin as a treatment for COVID, and supplements are not subject to the same kind of regulatory oversight as drugs.—
Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
27 June 2025
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The resolution is part of a broader debate over executive war powers and the need for legislative oversight in military decisions.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
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Resilience is more than traditional risk management, the report states.—
Joe McKendrick,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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The idea that residents should trust a city coming off 30 years of grievous management errors to handle this task well is hard to believe.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 June 2025
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His stewardship of the state during the COVID-19 pandemic was roundly criticized as overreach by Republicans with some municipal leaders ignoring business shutdown orders.—
Rick Pearson,
Chicago Tribune,
24 June 2025
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Trade chips Under the stewardship of president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford and general manager Patrik Allvin, the Canucks have generally been an aggressive team on the trade market.—
Thomas Drance,
New York Times,
19 June 2025
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In traditional robots, a control system analyzes sensory data and tells the machine what to do.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 June 2025
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Ranged across the top of the SoundLink Plus there is a strip of soft-touch controls for turning the speaker on and off, initiating Bluetooth pairing, syncing with other Bose speakers, as well as playing and pausing music, skipping tracks and adjusting volume levels.—
Mark Sparrow,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2025
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The industry experts will provide feedback and guidance to the participants—and will later select one director for an Allwyn scholarship and professional development trip to Los Angeles.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
1 July 2025
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Determining tax implications with the rapid movement of stablecoins will also require further guidance.—
Priya Prakash Royal Esq. LL.M. MBA AEP TEP,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Traditional sectors such as construction and real estate stand to benefit from the growing demand for data centers, while advancements in energy generation, storage and cooling technologies will be essential to support their operation.—
Evan Renov,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Our counterintelligence operations remain focused, vigilant, and relentless.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
1 July 2025
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Their huge fortunes are the legitimate wages of superintendence; in the struggle for existence, money is the token of success.—
Jeffery Vacante,
Hartford Courant,
19 Jan. 2025
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In exchange for help from the league in obtaining loans, a country had to accept the league’s superintendence of its economic affairs.—
Branko Milanovic,
Foreign Affairs,
21 June 2022
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India is hopeful of reaching a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration very soon, Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told Newsweek in an interview.—
Jennifer Cunningham,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 July 2025
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That’s how tariffs played out under the trade war during Trump’s first administration, according to one paper.—
Bailey Schulz,
USA Today,
30 June 2025
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“Supervision.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supervision. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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