How to Use yes-man in a Sentence

yes-man

noun

• Is her team currently full of yes-men high on her supply?
  — Bianca Davino, Refinery29, 7 Oct. 2025
• The first, Jim O’Neill, is a biotech entrepreneur who lacks a degree in medicine or public health and was widely seen as a yes-man for Kennedy.
  — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
• The appointment of a ‘yes-man’ at the head of the Fed (Kevin Hassett fits this role much more than the other leading candidate Kevin Warsh), will likely spur resistance within the institution, and across the regional Fed banks whose presidents help to make up the rate setting committee.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• High-profile right-wing accounts that previously served as yes-men for Musk—such as Ian Miles Cheong, a Malaysian who purportedly lives in the United Arab Emirates and posts incessant, racist drivel about American politics—have melted down over the platform’s decision to dox users.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2025
• During the rollout of ChatGPT’s GPT-4o model in 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agreed with X users that the chatbot had a problem with being a yes-man.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026