as in manager
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as in to supervise
to be in charge of
she was tapped to quarterback the upcoming gubernatorial campaign
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Recent Examples of quarterback
Will Graves, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
That’s good to have in your back pocket to defend someone such as Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen.
—Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2025
In Spurgeon, the Wild gain back a top-four defenseman who quarterbacks the top power play unit — which just got a lot more firepower with the return of Kaprizov.
—Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Chicago Tribune The Steelers quarterback room has had a revolving door since Ben Roethlisberger retired after the 2021 season.
—Will Graves, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
That’s good to have in your back pocket to defend someone such as Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen.
—Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
Verb
In posts shared Saturday and Sunday on X, ESPN’s Adam Schefter implied that NFL officials help quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2025
In Spurgeon, the Wild gain back a top-four defenseman who quarterbacks the top power play unit — which just got a lot more firepower with the return of Kaprizov.
—Shayna Goldman, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quarterback
Noun
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Even historically celebrated geniuses like Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs benefited immensely from working in fields that were fertile with change, ripe for disruption, and full of hard-working builders, makers, managers, and workers.—
Mark Nevins,
Forbes,
24 Mar. 2025
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Most significant, though, was the presence of Egil Olsen, a manager derided as a dinosaur at the time but who looks, in hindsight, an awful lot like a pioneer.—
Rory Smith,
The Athletic,
22 Mar. 2025
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By strictly supervising the pasteurization process, Evangelina ensured that no infants would die due to tainted milk supplies.—
Laura Gómez,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2025
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Among the film’s interviewees are two former nuns at the school and the abbot who supervised several of the priests accused of rape and murder.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
26 Mar. 2025
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Tom Sharpe, former United Kingdom Royal Navy commander, reiterated this point.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
21 Mar. 2025
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Included among dozens of other characters are a submarine commander and his crew, a creepy coroner, a sweaty spy, an American flyboy, and even the soon-to-be spy novelist Ian Fleming.—
Frank Rizzo,
Variety,
21 Mar. 2025
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And that's similar to how the last step in human speech production is handled; earlier steps in the process break down our vocalizations into individual sounds, and a specific region of the brain is devoted to producing the right anatomical configuration to produce them.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
19 Mar. 2025
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And, all the while, assistant coach Malik Allen, who handles the Heat’s big men, has been a constant presence, charged with working out Ware during pregame drills.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
19 Mar. 2025
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The Olympic Journey: Failure In 2008 Elana had finished an outstanding college softball career at GWU as the all-time leader in many offensive categories.—
Tim Genske,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts Pildes added that public opinion can be expressed through economics, which federal leaders watch attentively.—
Ivan Pereira,
ABC News,
21 Mar. 2025
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So much life happened in that station, said Jeana Johnson, who oversees museums in Sedgwick County.—
Bruce Finley,
Denver Post,
29 Mar. 2025
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Marks oversaw the agency’s rapid review and approval of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments during the height of the pandemic.—
Michael Casey and Matthew Perrone,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Mar. 2025
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Maryland will hire a new athletic director, and that person will have the chance to decide what kind of department the state’s flagship university should have.—
Childs Walker,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Mar. 2025
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Alex Adams, the governor’s former budget chief and director of Health and Welfare since June, was appointed to a position in the Trump administration on Tuesday, according to a news release.—
Angela Palermo,
Idaho Statesman,
27 Mar. 2025
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Weaver says that despite United’s poor form, the club is still commanding top-end commercial revenues for shirt sponsorships.—
Steve Price,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Myths exist to be retold and reinvented, and by Born This Way, Lady Gaga absolutely commanded the power to do so. 14.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Quarterback.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quarterback. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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