How to Use conservator in a Sentence

conservator

noun
  • In the summer of 2021, Spears told a judge that her conservators forced her to work.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister Variety Entertainment News Service, al, 11 July 2023
  • The spokesperson went on to tell The Guardian that a conservator used acetone to dissolve the glue.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Acidic smoke and greasy soot are grave concerns for any conservator, but in this case, the winds held them at bay.
    Emmett Lindner, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Lynn has served as her daughter’s conservator since it was put in place.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The plaster was stabilized, and a conservator worked to reattach the paint.
    Lisa Rathke, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Thanks to the conservators’ work, more than a year after they were promised to return, the Nivola horses have arrived home.
    Curbed, 12 Jan. 2024
  • If a school district fails to meet certain rules, the state can step in with a conservator to supervise them.
    Talia Richman, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • The conservator alerted the division to the ongoing lawsuit against the Siglers.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Though Bynes appeared to have a good relationship with her conservator, her mother Lynn, the court still held the reins.
    NBC News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Not much else is done until the museum’s conservator arrives on the scene.
    Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The chair is kept permanently at Westminster’s St. George’s Chapel, and is under the care of a team of conservators.
    Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 7 May 2023
  • Bynes' mother, Lynne Bynes, had been acting as her conservator and did not object to the request filed last month.
    Paul Vercammen, Cheri Mossburg, Chloe Melas, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The site said that her father, Jamie Spears, who long served as the conservator of her person and her estate, her mother, Lynne Spears, and the singer’s two teenage sons were not involved in the plans.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Artists get the glory, but conservators are the behind-the-scenes workers who help assure that glory is lasting.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2024
  • Yet a gentle conservator that does not kill, but rather feeds on animals that are already dead.
    Alice Li, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Since the directive did not list a successor to Melinda, Wilson’s team asked the court to appoint a conservator.
    Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Edward Fitzgerald, one of the conservators, had to travel to a school in Columbus, Indiana, to cast a new mold from fiberglass versions of the sculptures that were housed there.
    Curbed, 12 Jan. 2024
  • At one point, a friend of the crew member wore it to a costume party, where it was ripped and stained with blood, food and wine, so textile conservators working on restoring the dress had their work cut out for them.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Jay Leno has filed to be the conservator of his wife's estate amid a diagnosis of dementia.
    Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
  • King Charles opted to reuse the frames and the thrones were sent to conservators from the Royal Collection Trust to be carefully updated.
    Anna Fixsen, ELLE Decor, 2 May 2023
  • The paperwork makes Tom's brother the conservator of Tom's person and estate.
    Women's Health, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Wildlife conservators found 500 pounds of pythons in a single day last month in Collier County, Florida.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Her son, Kyle Johnson, had served as her legal conservator.
    Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Lauren Lewis, the conservator who authenticated the painting, said that this work simply disappeared for 80 years—only to show up at the thrift store of all places.
    Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Her mother, Lynn Bynes, had acted as her conservator since it was established nearly nine years ago.
    Andrew Dalton, Chron, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Kevin Federline has spoken in defense of Jamie Spears, his ex-wife Britney's dad and longtime conservator.
    Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The remains are now in the lab of palaeontological conservator Nigel Larkin, where they will be cleaned, preserved and prepared, according to Lomax.
    Rachel Elbaum, NBC News, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The focus is back on the painting, not the damage, said Ulrich Birkmaier, the Getty Museum's senior conservator of paintings.
    Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 16 June 2022
  • Emails referenced in the filing appear to indicate that Taylor wanted to be a co-conservator.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 2 July 2022
  • Instead, the papers appointed Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy as his conservators.
    Eric Levenson, CNN, 15 Aug. 2023

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