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Definition
to be in charge; or to head; or to be the chairperson — especially of a formal meeting or ceremony
- The cops kept us to one side, for there was another matter being heard, and four or five faces of peculiar night-wildness by the electric globe of the desk, and the sergeant with his large flesh and white fatty face presiding.Chapter 9 (85% in)
There are no more uses of "preside" in The Adventures of Augie March.
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