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Charles Martinet, the Nintendo company man who has voiced English-language Mario since 1991, is-a retiring from doing the Mario voice.
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Vulture, 21 Aug. 2023
There's the jealous religious leaders fearing loss of power, the company man concerned about keeping his job and keeping order ... and a betrayer whose love of wealth overcomes his love for a friend.
—Lauren Green, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
Brian Cox, perfectly furious and blow-dried; future Oscar winner Chris Cooper, the company man with no moral compass beyond damage control; a young Josh Hamilton and Walton Goggins (hi, Uncle Baby Billy!) barking out Bourne sightings and location codes from their desk-duty chairs.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 15 June 2022
Dead and Company is down by one company man.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Jan. 2022
Still, Daniels was initially set up as something of an antagonist to Detective Jimmy McNulty — a loyal company man reluctantly forced to supervise McNulty’s reckless quest to take down the local Barskdale drug crew by any means necessary.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
Mattinison was, perhaps, one of the last of an almost extinct genotype—the happy company man, the lifer.
—Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
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Vulture, 21 Aug. 2023
There's the jealous religious leaders fearing loss of power, the company man concerned about keeping his job and keeping order ... and a betrayer whose love of wealth overcomes his love for a friend.
—Lauren Green, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
Brian Cox, perfectly furious and blow-dried; future Oscar winner Chris Cooper, the company man with no moral compass beyond damage control; a young Josh Hamilton and Walton Goggins (hi, Uncle Baby Billy!) barking out Bourne sightings and location codes from their desk-duty chairs.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 15 June 2022
Dead and Company is down by one company man.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Jan. 2022
Still, Daniels was initially set up as something of an antagonist to Detective Jimmy McNulty — a loyal company man reluctantly forced to supervise McNulty’s reckless quest to take down the local Barskdale drug crew by any means necessary.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2023
Mattinison was, perhaps, one of the last of an almost extinct genotype—the happy company man, the lifer.
—Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2023
Pelé was the company man, Maradona was the outsider, their differences magnified by their petty long-standing quarrel over who was the better player.
—Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022
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First Known Use
circa 1921, in the meaning defined above
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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/company%20man. Accessed 30 Sep. 2023.
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