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governing

ADJECTIVE

commanding

Synonyms

STRONGEST

administrative dominant guiding ruling

STRONG

absolute ascendant conducting controlling determining directing dominating executive mastering ordering overseeing restraining superintending

WEAK

authoritative gubernatorial influential magisterial presidential regulatory supervisory supreme

Antonyms

STRONGEST

inferior subordinate

WEAK

powerless tributary

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Since then, Infantino has attended all kinds of events that don’t explicitly require the president of soccer’s governing body to be there.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Brazil’s Congress is still completing legislation governing strategic minerals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Embassy officials also called on Fifa, football's world governing body, to intervene on the visa row.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Stadium workers have also expressed concerns about being forced to share their personal information with FIFA, football's world governing body, to get World Cup accreditation -- amid fears that data will be shared with ICE.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

His target was a bespectacled former journalist named Herbert Bayard Swope, chairman of the New York Racing Commission, the governing body of War Admiral’s home turf.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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