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supervising



ADJECTIVE
controlling
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General Abdallah Noureddine, another senior commander supervising operations near the village of El Ezzeiat, told AFP the manoeuvres were "a message for our friends and our foes".

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

A supervising administrator who had received anonymous warnings about Fleming’s behavior was not disciplined, but was instead promoted to unit chief with a pay raise.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2026

Meta Platforms just offered a glimpse at what it thinks the future of work looks like: training and supervising artificial-intelligence systems to do what used to be your job.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 26, 2026

“You’ve got to make sure they do the right things,” he said, “and that requires paying attention and supervising them, if you will. Politicians are supposed to work for us.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026

In the early nineteenth century Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, while supervising the British occupation of Java sent two gamelan sets back to Britain, housed today in the British Museum.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall




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