superintended

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Ask Greg Becker, the bank's chief executive, today if he would rather have reduced per-share earnings or avoided having superintended the second-largest banking collapse in U.S. history.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2023

Their computer antics superintended by A farmer freed from labor of the kind That felled his father generations shy Of 2020; dual poles of the Dakota mind:

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2020

That is the doubled past we live with, superintended by strange, arbitrary spells of amnesia.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2016

Had the same thing been true for our generation - that the pop music that superintended our lives dated from before World War I - it would have been more than strange, bizarre.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2012

And the laborers stared at him, but dared not reply and he would not tell them anything, but he superintended them himself, so that he need not talk with Ching even of what he did.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck