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overseer

[oh-ver-see-er, -seer] / ˈoʊ vərˌsi ər, -ˌsɪər /
NOUN
person who supervises others' work
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Twomey recently asked her school committee to add special-education teachers, a school-transportation administrator and an overseer for the high school’s vocational program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Lastly, I would make it a joint effort, with the daughter acting as a peer who is also learning and in need of education — not as an overseer.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

How did Infantino go from progressive reformer, the overseer of newly transparent and accountable FIFA, to the man who literally tried to sell the World Cup?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Europe’s systemic risk overseer is considering an inquiry into private-credit investing, with an eye toward any risks those loans may pose to the European Union’s financial system.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

He said things like that now and then when Weylin gave him a hard time, or when the overseer, Edwards, tried to order him around.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler

Its overseers at the Los Angeles County Office of Education last month warned that the district meets the criteria for a “Lack of Going Concern” designation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

A striking convergence of events this week should have shaken the Pentagon’s overseers but so far hasn’t.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 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

Both Bernstein works are exactly what the new overseers say they want — more populist art, inspirational attempts to make American art great.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025

Sugar was the product of the slave and the addiction of the poor factory worker—the meeting place of the barbarism of overseers such as Thomas Thistlewood and the rigid new economy.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson


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