company man

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Recent Examples of company man 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 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 See All Example Sentences for company man
Recent Examples of Synonyms for company man
Noun
  • There, all animals undergo full medical evaluations, including testing for diseases, worms, and parasites.
    Meg Dunn, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The medication used to treat some parasites has also been used to treat COVID-19.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The vacuum itself has a six-stage filtration system (main cycle, mess filter, dura-cycle, coarse sponge, fine sponge and HEPA 13 filter).
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Don't make the mistake of using abrasive cleaning products or scrubber sponges on your mixer.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s not much in the way of philosophical heft or psychological insight as the plot follows many decades in the life of Paul Dano’s Vadim Baranov, the fictionalization of a real apparatchik spearheading Putin’s communication strategy.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The appointment of a ‘yes-man’ at the head of the Fed (Kevin Hassett fits this role much more than the other leading candidate Kevin Warsh), will likely spur resistance within the institution, and across the regional Fed banks whose presidents help to make up the rate setting committee.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Unlike the broad and more public validation that social media provides from getting likes, one-on-one conversations with chatbots can feel more intimate and potentially more convincing — not unlike the yes-men who surround the most powerful tech bros.
    Parmy Olson, Twin Cities, 23 July 2025
Noun
  • The small-mouth bass go for the leeches, too.
    Jeremy Rutherford, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Her book Saving Fish from Drowning, from drowning features a number of leeches.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025

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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/company%20man. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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