All 6 Uses
preside
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Growing Up, by Baker
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- On others she presided over family dinners cooked on Sunday afternoons for children who were now gray with age.†
Chpt 1 *presided = chaired; or headed; or was in charge
- Ida Rebecca, presiding over the nightfall from the cane rocker, announcing, upon hearing of some woman "up there along the mountain" who had dropped dead hauling milk to the creamery, that "man is born to toil, and woman is born to suffer."†
Chpt 4presiding = in charge (with highest authority); or heads; or chairs
- With a high gloss on his city shoes, in his crisp white barber's smock, he wisecracked with the railroad men as he presided in front of a long wall of mirrors lined with pomades, tonics, and scents.†
Chpt 4presided = chaired; or headed; or was in charge
- There they were tolerated so long as they didn't make an unsightly show of themselves around on Pratt or Lombard where whites presided.†
Chpt 14
- The matron belonged to a fundamentalist Protestant sect presided over by two women preachers who practiced faith healing in services in which hysteria ran high.†
Chpt 16
- My mother would preside at one end of the table, and Herb would sit at the other straining to hear the Washington Senators baseball game on the living-room radio while flattering my mother on the crispness of the fried chicken, the texture of the gravy, the excellence of the devil's food cake, the coconut cake, and the apple pie with which the dinner always ended.†
Chpt 17preside = be in charge; or head; or chair
Definitions:
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(1)
(preside) to lead or be in charge of a meeting, event, or group -- especially in an official or formal role
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)