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
  • Eating prey can be dangerous for cats, especially mice, which can carry disease, parasites and even poison.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • Ticks are products of their environment, and humans have played many roles in turning them into the harmful parasites that seek us out today.
    Sean Lawrence, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Use a microfiber cloth or a non-abrasive sponge to gently scrub the knob.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 10 July 2025
  • My hair absorbs leave in like a sponge, and this made my hair feel amazing.
    Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 8 July 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 14 Jul. 2025.

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