Synonyms for preside
prɪˈzaɪdpre·side

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1. preside

   Synonyms:
   manage, superintend, direct, control, govern

Princeton's WordNet

1. presideverb

   act as president

   "preside over companies and corporations"

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1. • Control

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1. presideverb

   Synonyms:
   command, rule, be at the head, act as chief, have the control, hold the reins, act as president

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1. List of paraphrases for "preside":

   chair, chairing, presidency

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1. Brett Schaefer:

   Having President Trump preside over the high-level event alerts every nation that U.N. reform is a top U.S. priority, inaction on reform could result in funding reductions or withholding to leverage reform or support for American priorities.

2. David Guas:

   Current king cake rituals in New Orleans evolved from the late 1800s when Mardi Gras Krewes( a term for parade and party organizing society groups) used King Cakes to choose queens and kings to preside over weekly balls, beginning with the Twelfth Night Ball.

3. Barbara Bush:

   Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well

4. Richard Pryor:

   I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

5. George Washington:

   If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.