supervise
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Instead, Essayli’s office has maintained that he can prosecute and supervise cases as first assistant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Managing the risk is possible, Lahav said, but the more capable these systems get, the harder they are to supervise.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Students either catalog recovered artifacts, most of which are ceramics, or "broken pots," as Anderson described them, or supervise excavation trenches.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
But Mehta and Neyshabur see recursive self-improvement as the “shortest path” to accelerating science, and believe it will be possible to safely supervise it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
His lunches lasted three hours, and he made paper airplanes of the homework he was supposed to supervise.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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The key element is making sure that a physician supervises your visits and is available in person when needed by you or the associate.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
A boatswain on a merchant ship, who supervises the deck’s seamen and manages equipment like ropes and cables, can earn nearly $5,200 a month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026
First To Serve, the nonprofit that supervises the hotel, did not respond to inquiries from The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2026
He also supervises the Guardian Council, which has the power to vet electoral candidates and veto parliamentary legislation.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026
She is a professor in the psychology department, where she supervises students who are getting master’s degrees.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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The company said Baird was closely supervised because she had limited experience as a behavior analyst when she joined Action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Tesla currently offers limited autonomous ride-hailing trips using Model Y SUVs in six U.S. cities, including Austin, as well as rides supervised by safety drivers in San Francisco.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Petrie, who had denied the allegations, will be supervised and monitored in the community for a further three years after his release.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Cadets should live together, train together and take responsibility for one another under a cadet chain of command supervised by experienced military professionals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Lawrence replied defensively that “the radio-sodium experiments were instigated by me alone,” adding, “I did suggest looking for artificial radioactivity this way and actively supervised the experiments.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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He found an ally, a forceful supervising nurse, Aisha Ragab, who had run from the war herself, back in 2018.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Maan, 61, of Ashford, Kent, was the crane supervisor responsible for overseeing and supervising lifting operations on the site.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
He started his career at SpiceJet, said Captain Gurucharan Arora, former director of flight operations at the low-cost Indian carrier, who remembers supervising him on a simulator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Parents supervising a teen account would get daily notifications of time spent, prompts to review settings and the power to adjust school hours.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
Gerald Black, at his own request, was supervising the mushrooming wooden partitions that were springing up in a bellying circle on the vaulted third floor of Radiation Building 2.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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Power Prefix: super-
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