supervise
verb (used with object)
to oversee (a process, work, workers, etc.) during execution or performance; superintend; have the oversight and direction of.
has supervised
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present perfectof supervise (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Since 2021, Dietz has supervised routine litigation, managed construction contracts for Nashville’s new NFL stadium and responded to crises, such as slip-and-fall lawsuits by tourists who partied too hard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 23, 2025
"We usually have more than 10,000 or more people working here daily," Patrice Musafiri, who has supervised the Rubaya mining site since the rebels took control of it in April last year, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2025
While Jackson has supervised his share of CGI-powered projects, including “Mad Max: Fury Road,” for which he earned an Oscar nomination, the VFX supervisor reserves a special fondness for Nolan’s analog aesthetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
Since 1993, there has been a federal court case in Newport News, Virginia, where a federal judge has supervised the underwater wreck site of the Titanic—or “the Wrecked and Abandoned Vessel,” as it is known.
From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2023
There is one farm-bred man, named R. C. Haskins, in the Harvester Building in Chicago, who, in his thirty years of salesmanship, has supervised the selling of $275,000,000 worth of harvesters to American farmers.
From The Romance of the Reaper by Herbert Newton Casson
