overseers

Example Sentences

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The BBC reached out to multiple church overseers for comment, but did not get a response.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

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

And that probably means its overseers in Tehran are reluctant to do so as well.

From Slate • Aug. 28, 2024

By the time the Haitian plantation owners and overseers reached New Orleans, abolitionists were pressing to end the African slave trade.

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