superintend

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To superintend this one, President Macron appointed Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin, former chief of staff of the French armed forces, who treated it as a problem of logistics and organization, a kind of architectural D-Day operation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

“District courts have no general equitable authority to superintend federal criminal investigations,” Justice Department lawyers wrote.

From Washington Times • Oct. 14, 2022

Wary of another reversal, Twitter has reportedly asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to superintend the closing.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2022

“Prodigy’s role in transmitting e-mail is akin to that of a telephone company, which one neither wants nor expects to superintend the content of its subscribers’ conversations,” Judge Albert Rosenblatt wrote.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2020

“You yourself—you were a young girl at the time—did you have no one to superintend your studies or to look after you?”

From "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie