trusteeships

noun

plural of trusteeship
as in auspices

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  1. guardianships
  2. governments
  3. protections
  4. rules
  5. leaderships
  6. reigns
Noun
  • Williams has been vocal about her objections to the guardianships, and her attempts to be removed from it.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 24 Aug. 2026
  • What this means, in the short term, is that Silvia and Guojun’s twenty-plus kids will remain in foster care until they are placed into guardianships or adopted, probably by their foster families.
    — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 11 May 2026
Definition of guardianships
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  • Waste plastic could provide another source of hydrocarbons for fuel production, particularly as governments and industry look for ways to deal with both plastic waste and aviation emissions.
    — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Much of the remaining acreage consists of brownfield developments that were allowed to dilapidate into disrepair under the governments of Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro.
    — David Blackmon, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of governments
Noun
  • The Overton window for acceptable AI use in Hollywood continues to widen as Hollywood actors, television hosts, and influencers embrace cloning with protections and compensation.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Projects would also face limits on air pollution and requirements related to clean backup power, green building standards and worker protections.
    — Naomi Taxay, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of protections
Noun
  • Landlords and billing firms argue RUBS promotes conservation and recoups rising costs, even as studies, regulators and a recent legal settlement push for submetering and stronger transparency rules.
    — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
  • But the court’s unsigned emergency ruling injects new uncertainty about voting rules in Georgia a little more than two months before the midterms.
    — Caleb Groves, AJC.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of rules
Noun
  • Similarly, leaders of the far-left and far-right parties will be excluded from government, perhaps unsurprisingly, as both parties’ leaderships, including Le Pen if her appeal is successful, are expected to stand against Macron’s would-be centrist successor.
    — Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 10 Oct. 2025
Definition of leaderships
Noun
  • Today’s Recipe Among the pantheon of brunch classics, eggs Benedict reigns.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Aside from the Arsenal manager, only the reigns of Emery at Villa and Daniel Farke at Leeds have exceeded three years.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of reigns
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