overseer

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Recent Examples of overseer The overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is waging an online battle to force out Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 19 June 2025 The device would collect brainwave data during the workday and transmit it wirelessly to a human or machine overseer, who could intervene if the worker’s mental load falls outside the optimal range. Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 29 May 2025 Had the John Tortorella firing not been so abrupt, power-play overseer Rocky Thompson may have followed him out the door. Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2025 The overseers of funds and investments for California, Illinois and half a dozen other states cite Tesla’s sagging stock, disappointing first-quarter deliveries and surge of trade-ins by vehicle owners as being among their causes for concern. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overseer
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Noun
  • In 2022 he was named superintendent in Calvert County with a four-year contract at an annual salary of $215,000, according to reports.
    Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
  • Grantley Williams, acting superintendent of police for the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force, said in a Facebook video that Tarrence was last seen leaving the Paradise Inn, where the couple was staying in the Grace Bay Area of the island.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • The Eero Plus subscription is expensive ($10 per month or $100 per year) but includes comprehensive parental controls, advanced security, ad blocking, and even a password manager and VPN service.
    Simon Hill, Wired News, 10 July 2025
  • Instead of trying to memorize dozens of complex passwords, a password manager securely stores them for you and automatically fills them in when needed.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Women composers and music supervisors did well this year, with female competitors in five of the seven music categories.
    Jon Burlingame, Variety, 15 July 2025
  • Music supervisor is a job that is part professional music nerd, part aural detective and part crate-digging business affairs exec.
    Peter White, Deadline, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Each of the suites feels more like a studio apartment by design and features bespoke Mexican artifacts, vintage objects, and furnishings selected by the brand’s design director, Roberto Ayala.
    Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 13 July 2025
  • Cheatle resigned as director shortly after her testimony.
    Annabella Rosciglione, The Washington Examiner, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • The chief, who is known to bristle at direction from the board, said some of the improvements Hahn asked for were already happening.
    Rebecca Ellis Follow, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2025
  • Newcomers from India include 53-year-old Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, 57-year-old Microsoft chief Satya Nadella and 57-year-old Nikesh Arora, who has run cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks since 2018.
    Matt Durot, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025

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“Overseer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overseer. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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