as in manager
a person who manages or directs something
the office of the superintendent of parks issues camping permits
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Recent Examples of superintendent
The superintendent also reassures teachers, staff and parents by telling them about the study conducted by the Clay County Public Health Center, also referred to as CCPHC.
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Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
The superintendent won’t present her official budget recommendation to the board until March 25.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2025
Broward County School Board members, the superintendent and district staff visited Broward Estates on Monday evening hoping to get community input on the early learning center that would replace the Lauderhill school.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
In Dallas, officials are analyzing school vaccination data and sending letters to superintendents of districts with high rates of vaccination exemptions to urge them to pay attention to the issue, Dr. Philip Huang, director of the Dallas County Health and Human Services Department, said.
—Neha Mukherjee, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
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Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 14 Mar. 2025
The superintendent won’t present her official budget recommendation to the board until March 25.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 12 Mar. 2025
Broward County School Board members, the superintendent and district staff visited Broward Estates on Monday evening hoping to get community input on the early learning center that would replace the Lauderhill school.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
In Dallas, officials are analyzing school vaccination data and sending letters to superintendents of districts with high rates of vaccination exemptions to urge them to pay attention to the issue, Dr. Philip Huang, director of the Dallas County Health and Human Services Department, said.
—Neha Mukherjee, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superintendent
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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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Teacher turnover Educators who were frustrated by remote learning and other conditions quit teaching and departed from classrooms across the nation, leaving school administrators nationwide with shortages of teachers and substitutes on staff, according to a RAND survey from 2021.—
Kayla Jimenez,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
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Rubio will continue to be USAID's acting administrator, and the two political appointees will be deputy administrators.—
Camilla Schick,
CBS News,
19 Mar. 2025
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The entities – also including Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks – are continuing to operate around the world while network executives contemplate next steps.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2025
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Yet a small amount of the whisky survived, says Ewan Gunn, an executive at Diageo, the global beverage company that now owns Port Ellen, as well as brands such as Johnnie Walker and Lagavulin.—
Travel + Leisure Editors,
Travel + Leisure,
18 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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Hulet and David Warm, the executive director of MARC, signed a fresh agreement for Head Start services in early November.—
Jonathan Shorman,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2025
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County supervisors bought into his ongoing call for a total transformation of the local mental health care system, shifting toward crisis centers at a time when many in the community were calling for the immediate construction of new locked units attached to major medical centers.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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Bass is the sole challenger to Jordan, who was first elected Rich Township supervisor in 2021, in the April 1 election.—
Olivia Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Superintendent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superintendent. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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