supervise
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Putin appointed former Economy Minister Maxim Oreshkin to supervise the company’s evolution into a wider online-payments system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
Managing the risk is possible, Lahav said, but the more capable these systems get, the harder they are to supervise.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
It told the Mumbai police commissioner to supervise the investigation and demanded a status report.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Students either catalog recovered artifacts, most of which are ceramics, or "broken pots," as Anderson described them, or supervise excavation trenches.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
I had to wash the floor in the hall in preparation while Mum Olga came by frequently to supervise.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
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The key element is making sure that a physician supervises your visits and is available in person when needed by you or the associate.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
In May 2024, she joined the Justice and Safety Division of the county counsel’s office, where she supervises civil litigation and advises county departments.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
He also supervises the Guardian Council, which has the power to vet electoral candidates and veto parliamentary legislation.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026
Scott Tomlin from Virginia said his son, who supervises supplies coming aboard the Ford, doesn’t like the food on the carrier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
The woman I am sitting with—the girl who is only a few years older than I am—is a different person than the woman who supervises me every day.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Any use belongs in clinical trials or in carefully supervised medical settings, not in clinics selling expensive “immune boosts.”
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
Athena says reflection rooms are "supervised environments" where "students continue their learning independently".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
While the order is in place, Adjepong can have supervised visits with his daughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Tesla now offers limited unsupervised rideshare services in at least three cities — Austin, Dallas and Houston — and supervised trips in California’s San Francisco Bay Area.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026
At the same time, at the ranch house, the physicist Robert Bacher supervised the assembly of the bomb’s plutonium core.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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Comments on the social media pages of several news outlets wanted to know who had been supervising the children overnight, while some called for resignations.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
She continued that work for three summers before supervising the excavation of a late Roman site this year.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
The film’s supervising technical director was remarkably calm upon learning that the company’s most valuable assets had disappeared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
Paige Osburn is the senior supervising producer of What Next and What Next TBD.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026
She rode out to the tobacco fields where Jaimito had said he’d be supervising the planting of the new crop.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Power Prefix: super-
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