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UK
/pɹɪsˈaɪd/
]
[ US /pɹiˈzaɪd, pɹɪˈzaɪd/ ]
[ US /pɹiˈzaɪd, pɹɪˈzaɪd/ ]
VERB
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act as president
preside over companies and corporations
How To Use preside In A Sentence
- If Obama runs for President, he'll need a good nomenclator. Sound Politics: Marcy Burner?
- China says it respects the legitimate status of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) while calling on Palestinian forces to end conflicts.
- Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
- The presidential election will be conducted against a backdrop of seismic political and economic turmoil. Times, Sunday Times
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- He presided over the job placement blackboard beside the trading floor.
- This construction of a new world order comes from a naïive and untraveled President, emboldened in his ignorance by advisors who have been plotting an aggressive Pax Americana ever since the Soviet bloc's collapse.
- It highlights key facets of presidential policies and priorities, difficulties and conflicts, while charting the developing nature of the office.
- Some random bluster and name-drop: "In 2005, we sponsored Rock the Vote, [garbled, something about wine], we got a chance to connect with President Obama then. "I want to see that invitation": D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#8, Oct. 1)
- But Arthur's do-gooder streak didn't particularly please other Republicans, and he became one of the few Presidents to fail to win his own party's nomination for re-election.