Sentence examples for officiated from inspiring English sources

The word 'officiated' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone performing or overseeing a particular event or ceremony, usually involving a legal or formal process. For example, "The mayor officiated the groundbreaking ceremony for the new school."

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officiated

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The ceremony was officiated by the most senior official present, who opened by invoking the blessings of the Great Leader, Kim Il-sung.

But the three-man disciplinary panel found it to be "an insidious and petulant act intended to threaten match officials into altering the way they officiated".

The English-born Brazilian Sidney Pullen officiated Argentina's 6-1 victoverover Chile on 6 July, then played at center half for Brazil against the same Chilean team two days later.

"In 1914 Herbert Bamlett officiated the FA Cup final between Liverpool and Burnley; by that summer, he had become manager of Oldham Athletic, although the first world war disrupted his tenure there.

In 2011 meanwhile, vice-president Edward Ssekandi officiated a ceremony in which a distributor was awarded a car and organised for Tiens to donate some of its products to a government health centre.

Queen Latifah officiated the ceremony and Madonna joined the musical performance, while wearing an all-white pantsuit and cowboy hat.

Meisl also officiated international matches during the same period, including the 1912 Olympics.

In February Michael Heseltine, the deputy prime minister, officiated at the launch of a list of Britain's 100 richest Asian businessmen.

The prime minister, Li Peng, officiated on October 28th as dump-trucks deposited the last of 300,000 cubic metres of stone into the river.

In November he officiated with his father at the opening of a large, Chinese-built harbour in Hambantota.

IN A military camp close to the Syrian Kurdish city of Derik a group of 26 young Iraqi men dressed in camouflage stood to attention as instructors and a sheikh officiated a ceremony to mark the end of their training on August 27th.

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