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Recent Examples of company man
Loosely based on Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Ax, No Other Choice is bleakly funny, and Lee’s excellent performance reveals the cost of being a company man.
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Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
20 Sep. 2025
This is the language of a company man, not a freethinker.
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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.
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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.
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Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
20 Sep. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for company man
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Most standard portable filters only catch parasites, so check that any filter is certified to NSF Standard 53 or 58 with a small enough pore size.
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Police said nearly all the dogs that were surrendered tested positive for whipworm, an intestinal parasite known to cause anemia that, if left untreated, can eventually result in the death of an animal.
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Scrub the grates with an old rag or abrasive dish sponge and rinse well.
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Chemical sunscreens cover the skin in a transparent coating, acting like a solar sponge.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The fact is that leeches are relished by everything from walleyes and bass to trout and all the panfish.
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The wetland habitats of Condylura cristata are rich in small-bodied invertebrates — earthworms, leeches, aquatic insect larvae — but the individual caloric value of each prey item is low.
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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/company%20man. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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