overseers

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If banks lent out the funds anyway, they would be subject to costly demerits from their overseers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

The comedian, who returned to host Monday nights in early 2024 after nearly a decade away, acknowledged recent tensions with the network’s new corporate overseers.

From Salon • Oct. 27, 2025

Because The Truth has no official leader, the BBC instead contacted six of its most senior current officials - known as "overseers" - for comment.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

But so far, he said, Syria’s new overseers have been unfailingly polite, announcing soon after their arrival on the mosque loudspeaker that residents could come visit the tomb without harassment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2025

Quite often the masters and the overseers came back without the runaways.

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