team player
noun
: someone who cares more about helping a group or team to succeed than about his or her individual success
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For an ordinary schoolkid on a baseball diamond, having aretê might amount to paying attention, being a team player, and trying hard.
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Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
Enter Iain Munro, a Rangers and Scotland national-team player in the 1970s and 1980s who was coaching there and went on to become YSC director.
—Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 16 May 2026
In positioning Mollestad as an exploratory team player, its six tracks reveal her chops well beyond that of a showboating virtuoso.
—Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 24 Apr. 2026
Drexel Hill Little League says this night every year teaches the kids to overcome adversity, be a team player, and most of all enjoy themselves, because that's what the game of baseball is all about.
—Kerri Corrado, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
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Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
Enter Iain Munro, a Rangers and Scotland national-team player in the 1970s and 1980s who was coaching there and went on to become YSC director.
—Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 16 May 2026
In positioning Mollestad as an exploratory team player, its six tracks reveal her chops well beyond that of a showboating virtuoso.
—Joshua Minsoo Kim, Pitchfork, 24 Apr. 2026
Drexel Hill Little League says this night every year teaches the kids to overcome adversity, be a team player, and most of all enjoy themselves, because that's what the game of baseball is all about.
—Kerri Corrado, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2026
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“Team player.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/team%20player. Accessed 27 May. 2026.
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