as in servant
a person hired to perform household or personal services
the earl couldn't imagine how he'd manage without his steward
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as in to oversee
to look after and make decisions about
will steward the city's library programs
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Recent Examples of steward
Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Also on Thursday morning, the stewards of 007, Barbara Broccoli and her brother Michael G. Wilson, signed creative control of the James Bond franchise over to Amazon MGM Studios.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2025
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
The artist in April 2024 filed a breach-of-contract suit against the institution, accusing it of having failed to properly steward the work since its completion.
—News Desk, Artforum, 15 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The trust is led by a board of directors — six of whom are appointed by the president — and employs a staff of ecologists, building stewards, utility workers, tech professionals and others.
—Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Also on Thursday morning, the stewards of 007, Barbara Broccoli and her brother Michael G. Wilson, signed creative control of the James Bond franchise over to Amazon MGM Studios.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2025
Verb
Growing food is a political act Growing food implies accepting the responsibility to steward the land on which one lives, taking control of one’s own life and health, and taking responsibility for the well-being of the people consuming the food one has grown.
—Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
The artist in April 2024 filed a breach-of-contract suit against the institution, accusing it of having failed to properly steward the work since its completion.
—News Desk, Artforum, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steward
Noun
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Carrigan plays the dutiful, largely silent family servant in the movie.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
8 Mar. 2025
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In the film, a loyal government servant accepts a promotion, a move that will be beneficial to him, his wife, and their two teenage daughters.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
2 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Ali is overseeing a challenge to Mr. Trump's 90-day pause on foreign assistance brought by a group of nonprofits and businesses that receive foreign aid funding and argue the freeze is an unconstitutional exercise of presidential power.—
Melissa Quinn,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2025
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Simone Swink will oversee all Good Morning America branded shows, a change as GMA and GMA3 had previously operated separately, with Cat McKenzie as EP of the spinoff show.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
5 Mar. 2025
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The Trump administration has denied in court papers that intends to abolish the agency completely, arguing that some of its functions are continuing, but Reuters on Monday reported top officials at the consumer agency have not allowed staff to resume supervising financial companies.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA TODAY,
5 Mar. 2025
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General billed Medicare and other government insurers for surgeries performed by Harvard medical trainees without proper oversight because supervising surgeons were working in another operating room.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
4 Mar. 2025
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Netanyahu, for his part, managed to survive beyond both of those presidencies and is still very much on the political scene today.—
Tevi Troy,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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Factoring in Trump’s uncertainty Fed policymakers manage uncertainty by trying to predict the different ways the economy could evolve in the coming months, based on economic models using a vast array of data.—
Bryan Mena,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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Partnering with a family that owned and operated dozens of gas stations, Partridge's company supplied paper products, like toilet paper and paper towels, to their locations across the Midwest.—
Jillian Ellison,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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The company eventually owned and operated six production studios in Vancouver and Toronto.—
Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Access to such information is tightly controlled, said Jeffrey Vagle, a law professor and cybersecurity expert at Georgia State University who has in the past worked on classified federal technology projects.—
DAVID KLEPPER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Feb. 2025
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By Rebecca Schneid February 28, 2025 10:35 AM EST U.S. consumers have been encouraged to participate in a 24-hour buying boycott today, targeting all economic activity—especially major retailers—as a way to show politicians that everyday consumers can control the economy.—
Rebecca Schneid,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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In the Oval Office on March 6, Trump was asked what department or agency would handle student loans if the Department of Education was dismantled.—
Rebecca Schneid,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
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This presented a challenge that Pakistani officials say the country was unprepared to handle.—
Betsy Joles,
NPR,
7 Mar. 2025
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The findings, part of a report released last month, echo the conclusions of a similar audit conducted four years earlier, also by the state Auditor General.—
Carol Marbin Miller,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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Researchers there were conducting part of a nationwide clinical trial of Leqembi, then known by its generic name, lecanemab.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Steward.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steward. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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