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

A striking convergence of events this week should have shaken the Pentagon’s overseers but so far hasn’t.

From Slate • Dec. 19, 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

Pasta has been eaten in southern Italy since the Middle Ages, when Sicily’s Arab overseers introduced the drying of dough as a form of preservation, according to Amadei.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 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