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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for company man
Noun
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These conditions can facilitate the spread of viruses, bacteria and parasites.—
Meg Tanaka,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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Rescue teams quickly mobilized and began efforts to retrieve and assess the pigeons, which will each require veterinary evaluations, medication, and parasite treatment.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026
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Sara Aparacio, a resident cleaning expert at Homeaglow, equates scrubbing an appliance with an abrasive sponge to rubbing it with very fine sandpaper.—
Maria Sabella,
The Spruce,
11 Apr. 2026
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Stay away from paper towels, rough sponges, or scrub brushes, since these can leave small scratches or dull spots over time.—
Jessica Safavimehr,
Southern Living,
11 Apr. 2026
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Until recently, Magyar was an anonymous, well-to-do Fidesz apparatchik.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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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
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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
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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
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Crappie like to hover below their prey, fining in place and examining slow-swimming invertebrates such as damselfly, dragonfly, and mayfly nymphs, as well as small leeches.—
Cory Schmidt,
Outdoor Life,
15 Apr. 2026
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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
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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/company%20man. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.
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