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stewarding

verb

present participle of steward

as in managing

to look after and make decisions about will steward the city's library programs

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Positioning the commercial arm of the 100-year-old BBC for a streaming future while managing the traditional linear channels that still do great business in many international territories.

— Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
Years later, there’s still work to be done managing a film’s intellectual property rights and corporate vehicles.

— Kim Jackson, IndieWire, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of managing

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Judge Heather Beato, appointed by DeSantis to the 10th Judicial Circuit in 2020, is overseeing the case, a court docket shows.

— Justin Garcia, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026
Instead, the board should function as a concert of great powers, both democratic and autocratic, tasked with managing crises and overseeing and building consensus on matters of global governance.

— Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of overseeing

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For ShadowMachine, Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico serve as executive producers, and Musa Brooker serves as supervising director.

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Oct. 2026
The surge in profits has been driven by robust trading in stocks, bonds and currencies, fees from supervising and advising clients’ investments, underwriting initial public offerings and a pickup in mergers and acquisitions.

— John Towfighi, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of supervising

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As a major bloc that has been able to apply pressure, the union has thwarted several efforts by Mamdani’s predecessors to ban the attraction, as hundreds of carriage operators make a living operating the buggies.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 14 Oct. 2026
Industry participants observed a live demonstration of LGMG’s electric mining trucks operating alongside intelligent fleet dispatch, solar generation, energy storage, and ultra-fast charging infrastructure.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of operating

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Employee did not wash hands after handling raw food and changing gloves, before handling ready to eat foods.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
About one-quarter of AAPI adults approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president overall.

— Terry Tang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of handling

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Witch fever, by this point in history, had become a mechanism for brutally regulating and disciplining female behavior, and doing so intergenerationally.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
Skill game machines are disappearing from businesses and private clubs across Pennsylvania after lawmakers failed to pass legislation regulating them before the state's deadline.

— Madeleine Wright, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of regulating

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Virginia did a good job controlling SMU for long stretches, but a few big plays negated all that.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026
Since Oppenheim and Fielder can’t record her there, their contact is mediated through her seemingly unstable and controlling husband, Billy Evans.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of controlling

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Raphaëlle, meanwhile, is recovering after a long rehabilitation and must confront the loss of her mobility, which prevents her from conducting investigations with her former energy.

— Ed Meza, Variety, 14 Oct. 2026
Iran appears to be targeting vessels conducting ship-to-ship oil transfers around the Strait of Hormuz, according to a military institute.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Oct. 2026

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