Definition of "oversaw" []

• Past tense of oversee. (verb)

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• "Matt Flavin oversaw a 450-person intelligence unit in Bosnia, deployed overseas with the Navy SEALs and survived combat in Afghanistan and Iraq."
• "In 1989, Mr. Chernomyrdin oversaw the conversion of the ministry into Gazprom, of which he unsurprisingly was elected chairman."
• "Catlin oversaw testing for anabolic agents at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and ran the country's first anti-doping lab at UCLA for 25 years."