overseer

Example Sentences

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The board recognized by the U.S. government as the legitimate overseer of PdVSA’s overseas oil assets vowed to fight to keep Citgo under Venezuelan control.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

The confused stowaway tried to hop away onto the freeway, but project overseer Robert Rock rescued the frog and released it at the top of the crossing.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

“We respect your right to freedom of choice,” the overseer says in the third episode, “001.”

From Salon • Jun. 27, 2025

As the self-promoting overseer of X, he holds outsize influence over the countries whose political and electoral discourses still—for persistent lack of better alternatives—center on the text-based platform once known to them as Twitter.

From Slate • Aug. 14, 2024

Though Old Rit continued to deplore the audacity, the boldness in Harriet that made her defy an overseer, she stopped calling her Minta or Minty.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry