Examples of pencil pusher in a Sentence
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This is when the general managers, personnel directors and pencil pushers start to get a realistic feel for how their salary caps will take shape.
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Damon Marx,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Feb. 2026
Yet even a 5-foot-5, 150-pound pencil pusher understands that a bad offensive line is an incurable disease for a football team.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
Legacy operators are being nudged out by pencil pushers and industrious Yemeni tobacco-shop owners.
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Jay Bulger,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2024
This might sound normal for your typical office worker, stuck at home during the pandemic, but Wolfe is no pencil pusher.
—
Andrew Weaver,
Outside Online,
3 July 2020
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Damon Marx,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Feb. 2026
Yet even a 5-foot-5, 150-pound pencil pusher understands that a bad offensive line is an incurable disease for a football team.
—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
Legacy operators are being nudged out by pencil pushers and industrious Yemeni tobacco-shop owners.
—
Jay Bulger,
Rolling Stone,
13 Aug. 2024
This might sound normal for your typical office worker, stuck at home during the pandemic, but Wolfe is no pencil pusher.
—
Andrew Weaver,
Outside Online,
3 July 2020
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“Pencil pusher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pencil%20pusher. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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