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What is the verb for oversight?

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oversee
  1. (literally) To survey, look at something in a wide angle.
  2. (figuratively) To supervise, guide, review or direct the actions of a person or group.
  3. To inspect, examine
  4. (obsolete) To fail to see; to overlook, ignore.
  5. To observe secretly or unintentionally.
  6. Synonyms:
  7. Examples:
    1. “I was asked to oversee the department while the manager was on leave.”
      “As head chef, it is my responsibility to oversee each and every dish before it leaves the kitchen.”
      “He will also oversee the opening of another four shops before the end of the year.”
oversight
  1. (transitive, nonstandard) To oversee; to supervise.
oversees
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of oversee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “His network operations center oversees 350 million terabytes of data and a network that keeps engineering humming around the globe.”
      “When spawning, wrasses gather in loose aggregations where one dominant male oversees many females within a general territory.”
      “Every now and then oversees visitors will drop in and it always winds up they sometimes are tracing ancestors or relatives.”
oversighted
  1. simple past tense and past participle of oversight
  2. Examples:
    1. “If remaining populations are still out there oversighted by science, we may have a chance of recovering those if we understand how the fungus works.”
oversighting
  1. present participle of oversight
overseeing
  1. present participle of oversee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Specifically, the Board urges a revival of the oversight role of metropolitans, i.e., archbishops overseeing bishops in their province.”
      “I aim to encourage closer links with communities and resources available and not just be a rubber stamp overseeing matters.”
      “The air rights for these parcels are the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which is the agency overseeing the Big Dig.”
oversaw
  1. simple past tense of oversee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He oversaw the retrenchment of the national army during an unstable period.”
      “Mackay, who successfully oversaw a radical restructuring of the group, will be a tough act to follow.”
      “There, Borlaug oversaw foundation research in genetics, breeding, plant pathology, entomology, agronomy, soil science, and cereal technology.”
overseen
  1. past participle of oversee
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The production is being overseen by co-producer, Bill, who has been developing the project for several years.”
      “The list was developed in a series of winnowing steps and overseen by economists, with the final panel including three Nobel laureates.”
      “The women were encouraged, guided and overseen by the playwright and dramaturg, Nina Rapi.”
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