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overseer

noun as in person who supervises others' work

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In the background, the older workers negotiate with the overseer for better pay by threatening to strike, and suffer his threats and intimidation.

Trump has said that he will make Musk the overseer of “government efficiency.”

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Johannes’ overseer is no fan of “metaphysical rubbish,” which is where the young man’s energies are directed, particularly toward the universal wave function that suggests the existence of multiple realities.

He is known as a longtime overseer of the group’s bomb-making capability, directing dozens of suicide bombings of Israeli buses and cafes in the 1990s and early 2000s.

The cruel overseer whipped her and the baby, and she begged the old man Toby to set her free.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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