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company man

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Recent Examples of company man With that in mind, and a lack of serious options at the moment, the decisions to appoint two company men, Rosenior and Fletcher — albeit in different circumstances — is more understandable than in previous years. — Michael Cox, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026 This is the language of a company man, not a freethinker. — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for company man

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Artemisinin is activated by hemoglobin digestion, so to get better, patients actually need the parasite to eat.

— Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
In the original manga, Ryoko Tamiya is a parasite who takes over the body of a high school teacher.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 23 July 2026

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The lowest score came from The Guardian, which handed it two stars out of five, while Giant Bomb landed positive overall with a complaint that the boss fights lean on damage sponges more than puzzles.

— Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Those other structures are covered in soft, bendy corals, sponges, marine plants and algae.

— Alex Harris July 22, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026

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However, Pratt, who has signed up for a reality series following his campaign, also has attracted MAGA support from the likes of James Woods, ex-Kennedy Center chief and apparatchik Richard Grenell and Brian Glazer, which doesn’t exactly help his claims.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 20 May 2026
Jared Harris is superb as Soviet nuclear scientist Valery Legasov, who helps convince apparatchik Boris Shcherbina (Stellan Skarsgard) that the situation is sufficiently grave that it can’t be covered up.

— David Faris, TheWeek, 14 May 2026

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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

Definition of yes-man

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