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superintend

[soo-per-in-tend, soo-prin-] / ˌsu pər ɪnˈtɛnd, ˌsu prɪn- /
VERB
supervise
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To superintend this one, President Macron appointed Gen. Jean-Louis Georgelin, former chief of staff of the French armed forces, who treated it as a problem of logistics and organization, a kind of architectural D-Day operation.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 3, 2025

“District courts have no general equitable authority to superintend federal criminal investigations,” Justice Department lawyers wrote.

From Washington Times Oct. 14, 2022

Wary of another reversal, Twitter has reportedly asked the Delaware Court of Chancery to superintend the closing.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 4, 2022

“Prodigy’s role in transmitting e-mail is akin to that of a telephone company, which one neither wants nor expects to superintend the content of its subscribers’ conversations,” Judge Albert Rosenblatt wrote.

From Slate Feb. 20, 2020

It was no longer in Emma’s power to superintend his happiness or quicken his measures.

From "Emma" by Jane Austen




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