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boss

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adjective

slang

boss

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verb

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of boss
Noun
Drescher played Fran Frine and Shaughnessy played her onscreen boss-turned-beau, Maxwell Sheffield. Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025 Notably, that was considerably more than his boss was earning as a House member, $174,000. David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
This excludes things like putting in legendaries for end of mission rewards or taking them out of non-boss chests. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021 Binning notes that Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of the Niles area, a former Traficant aide who won his ex-boss' congressional seat, was re-elected Tuesday by his smallest-ever margin, defeating GOP former state legislator Christina Hagan by 7.5 percentage points. Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
Verb
Bertha sits down with Gladys and finds out that Hector and Sarah’s parents died when Hector was young, and Sarah has been bossing him around ever since. Alice Burton, Vulture, 28 July 2025 Ali Larter [who plays Thornton’s feisty ex-wife] bursts through the room wearing half a sarong and starts bossing me around. Emily Longeretta, Variety, 15 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for boss
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boss
Noun
  • Commonly, business leaders, tech journalists, and anyone with a yen to follow the top changes in AI will take a look at what top consultants have to say.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Arkansas ranks high as a national leader in the school choice movement, the head of the state's Educational Freedom Accounts program said Thursday, citing standings from several think tanks and advocacy groups.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Harry Dean Stanton is excellent.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Moisture recovery ranged from good to excellent, with morning relative humidity levels between 55% and 88%.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Four university police officers supervised the event, setting up what appeared to be a sort of perimeter surrounding the group.
    Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025
  • In this photo, mama, who liked posing for the camera, supervises her litter of kittens.
    Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • These days, as the daughters of Debbie rule the airwaves, that’s what pop music is all about.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
  • That’s because the First Amendment plays a unique role when the government is the employer, Collis explains — and the Supreme Court has ruled that if an employee is acting in a private capacity but speaking on a matter of public concern, they’re protected.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Kirsten Obstacles and my first realisations about society's stereotypical attitudes toward motherhood, being a mother, and being an artist and mother quickly led me to take action.
    Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Cox said there was no information leading authorities to believe there was a second person involved.
    Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On a white-run construction site in West Africa, an edgy, tightly wound foreman anxiously awaits his bride.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Set on a white-run construction site in West Africa, the story follows an edgy foreman anxiously awaiting his bride, whose presence meets resistance from a cocksure engineer clinging to the hyper-masculine status quo.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That rules, actually, that video is awesome.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • But the people there were awesome.
    Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Charter schools are overseen by independent boards, overwhelmingly, like nonprofit boards of directors that manage the oversight and then follow all or most of the same government rules related to public schools.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI has hired Mike Liberatore, former finance chief at Elon Musk's xAI, to be the artificial intelligence startup's business finance officer, responsible for overseeing its massive infrastructure spending.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Boss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boss. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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