company man

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Recent Examples of company man Cena has always been a company man. Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025 Everyone was being a company man. Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2024 Coates was once a proud company man. Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024 First-time head coach Campo was a good company man, and solid defensive coordinator. Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for company man
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Noun
  • The knowledge that my life only matters as a body for labor feeds on my heart like a parasite.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
  • The analysis also unveiled other species of bacteria and a parasite which had all previously been unknown to science.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • But, for the most part, a nice guy and a top-notch pain sponge.
    Whitney Friedlander, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • Avoid scrubbing the microwave’s interior with rough materials like steel wool or abrasive sponges.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Modi began his career as an RSS apparatchik before being sent by the organization to work for the BJP.
    HARTOSH SINGH BAL, Foreign Affairs, 30 June 2025
  • The new play now at A Red Orchid Theatre is about the existential angst that flows from an acting role only a Soviet apparatchik could truly love: standing in for a murderous dictator with myriad enemies.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • The yes-men and yes-women in his Cabinet approve of everything Trump does, for fear of losing their cushy jobs.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 May 2025
  • Imagine this group of hangers on and yes-men (and women) working with Trump on a national or international crisis.
    Frederic B. Hill, Baltimore Sun, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • For months, researchers returned to a single cave in southern China to collect an unusual kind of leech.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025
  • Ground Control is set deeper in the depths of the Quarry, where players pop leech pods like pimples to find irradiated pearls to shove into a cart.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2025

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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/company%20man. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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