presiding

adjective

Definition of presidingnext
as in chief
highest in rank or authority a senator who is the presiding member of the armed services committee

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for presiding
  1. chief
  2. commanding
  3. supreme
  4. foremost
  5. leading
  6. senior
  7. top
  8. principal
Adjective
  • It was commissioned by Sebastian Cardwell, deputy chief content officer, U.K., and Paul Testar, commissioning editor for Paramount+.
    Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Related article Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit Musk also called out the Department of Energy’s chief climate officer in its loan programs office.
    Hadas Gold, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of chief
Adjective
  • In District 10, which Mahan represented before becoming mayor, George Casey has defeated incumbent Arjun Batra after jumping out to a commanding lead and winning 57.8% of the vote in his district, according to Friday evening’s vote tally by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters.
    Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Gallego took a commanding early lead over Lake in the initial results.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of commanding
Adjective
  • However, it is frequently overlooked by general celebrants of the spooky holiday who are not supreme enthusiasts of the King of Pop.
    Ime Ekpo, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The supreme leader has also vowed to start stoning women to death in public again.
    Harriet Marsden, The Week UK, theweek, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of supreme
Adjective
  • After a brief impression of Judy, Paris offered some insight into one of the girls’ foremost comedic influences growing up.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Alex Sarian, the president and CEO of Arts Commons, one of Canada’s foremost centers for the arts, thinks the answer is a crisis of relevance.
    Timothy J. McClimon, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of foremost
Adjective
  • And a Black actor, Cynthia Erivo, plays a leading role formerly popularized by a white performer in the stage production.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that salmonella causes approximately 1.35 million infections in the U.S. every year and is America's leading cause of hospitalizations and deaths linked to foodborne illness.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
Definition of leading
Adjective
  • If Texas makes a championship run this football season, senior center Jake Majors might set a school record.
    Danny Davis, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Derek Blasberg, Samantha Boardman, Margo M. Nederlander, and Lizzie Tisch chaired the event—and ABC News senior correspondent and Citymeals board member Deborah Roberts acted as emcee.
    David Graver, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of senior
Adjective
  • Annie Schlechter Reiss’s studio is on the top floor of the brownstone.
    Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Fitzgerald explains that parties often run on a spectrum, where, say, a frat party might have the top elements (surprise and delight), but not nearly enough of the bottom (like, say, a clean couch to sit on).
    Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 18 Nov. 2024
Definition of top
Adjective
  • In the years since, however, the ruling has been cited by federal courts more than 18,000 times and has become a pillar — and one of the principal enablers — of the administrative state.
    Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 22 Nov. 2024
  • The finale saw Kitty expelled from KISS for her semester spent living in the boy's dorm, but as a consolation, her mother's former roommate — principal Jina Lim (Yunjin Kim) — gave her a letter that teen Eve wrote to Jina way back when.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of principal
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