overseers

Example Sentences

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The BBC reached out to multiple church overseers for comment, but did not get a response.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

If banks lent out the funds anyway, they would be subject to costly demerits from their overseers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

The comedian, who returned to host Monday nights in early 2024 after nearly a decade away, acknowledged recent tensions with the network’s new corporate overseers.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

The r/ChangeMyView overseers did not agree with that point and responded by filing an ethics complaint with the university, demanding that the study not be published, and contacting higher-ups with Reddit’s legal team.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2025

Nothing would ever stop her from helping them, not masters or slave catchers, or overseers or fugitive slave laws.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry