company man

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Recent Examples of company man 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 In 2014, Microsoft surprised people by promoting the ultimate company man, Satya Nadella, to CEO. Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024 That’s a lot of synergy, and Michaels is a company man. Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for company man
Recent Examples of Synonyms for company man
Noun
  • The unfortunate truth is that blueberries can carry all sorts of unwanted guests, from dirt and debris, tiny bugs like aphids or fruit flies, pesticide residue, bacteria like E. coli, Salmonella, or Listeria, mold spores, and even parasites.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 18 May 2025
  • That setting could help preserve it by protecting it from natural degradation caused by parasites and other organisms.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The central pool has clusters of coral and sponges, attracting dozens of types of tropical fish.
    Erik Trinidad, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2025
  • Benny’s presented as an overachieving sponge, absorbing contradictory messages about how he is supposed to live in society from both masc frat culture, which tells him to repress, and the relatively more progressive music and films he’s become obsessed with, which tell him to, uh, slay.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • In that time, Tucci appeared in a number of films as either a foot soldier, don, or other apparatchik of an underground criminal organization, including Quick Change, Men of Respect, Billy Bathgate, and The Public Eye.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But his theory seemed to mirror the temperament of Deng, who, for all his reformist tendencies, was a ruthless apparatchik.
    Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
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
  • The uncertainty of global tariffs, exploding trade war with China, and endless attacks on European nations as parasitic leeches on the U.S. economy mark the demise of the trans-Atlantic alliance.
    Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025
  • There are a handful of schools with about 2,000 children within a half-mile of ground zero of the toxic Tijuana River, the place where a swamp gas leeches out and spreads over our neighborhoods.
    Tom Csanidi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/company%20man. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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