oversight
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Currently anyone can call themselves a maternity nurse, sleep expert or consultant, without any training, oversight or accountability.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Like any insular organization—police unions, the military—the judiciary won’t raise its standards without outside oversight.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2026
Naveed Hasan is a computer programmer, a parent and a member of Panel for Education Policy, an oversight board for New Yorks' public school system.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
Progress on some of the health secretary’s hallmark initiatives—including efforts on ingredient oversight and ultraprocessed food—has slowed over concerns they could further drive up food prices, people familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
They let me and another prisoner stay in the dormitory, simply left us there in our sleeping-bags as if by oversight, when it was plain that we could not stand up on our feet.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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