company man

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Recent Examples of company man The 58-year-old Bergman is a company man, having joined back in 1996, and is regarded as sharp and skilled at overseeing a portfolio that includes Marvel, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation and Lucasfilm. Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2025 When asked by Robinson about the Heat's team-building intentions during the offseason, Adebayo was a company man, keeping word mum. Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025 First-time head coach Campo was a good company man, and solid defensive coordinator. Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025 This would certainly be a huge match for both Hendry and TNA, especially since Cena is so recognized as a company man who has only wrestled with WWE. John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for company man
Recent Examples of Synonyms for company man
Noun
  • What starts as a parasite quickly turns into something far more lethal, emerging in stages the crew can’t anticipate — including one of the most famous and shocking scenes in movie history.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Satoskar says the inaccurate information that influencers are sharing about parasites might encourage people, including those with delusional parasitosis, to make risky health decisions.
    Sarah Boden, NPR, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • It is made of durable, waterproof Oxford cloth and features sponges inside to hold the wires in place.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • This form of biological clock mechanism appears even in ancient lineages, including sponges and some jellyfish.
    Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The group ventriloquized the voices of authority—parents, school principals, cops, military officers, judges, politicians, newscasters, Soviet apparatchiks—and turned them into expressions of mass insanity.
    Andrew Katzenstein, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Regardless, the new corporate owners of the network, embodied by the late, great Robert Duvall‘s C-suite apparatchik, get on board.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • The jungle, in the Truong Son range between Laos and the South China Sea, is home to tigers and leeches.
    Nicole Young, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • At worst, a leech on the already meager royalty payouts artists receive from streaming services.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2026

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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/company%20man. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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