leadman

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Recent Examples of leadman Osorio joined the company in 2011 and has worked as an apprentice carpenter, carpenter, leadman, foreman, and assistant superintendent. Cindy Kent, Sun-Sentinel.com, 3 May 2017
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Noun
  • After an unseasonably warm winter, for example, when temperatures in the Czech countryside failed to drop below zero, Arrowsmith, SFX supervisor Ondrej Nierostek and their team had no choice but to build their own frozen lake from scratch.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 24 June 2025
  • The agreement, which still needs to be ratified by the union membership and the supervisors, includes a $5,000 bonus in the first year, followed by a 2% cost of living adjustment and $2,000 bonus in the second year and a 5% salary increase the third year.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • Li, who had a brief stint at a bank after graduating from the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies with a finance degree, joined Zhou Liu Fu simultaneously as a general manager.
    Zinnia Lee, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • City officials credit the improvement to a consortium of managers, emergency workers and labor leaders and to changes in how city ambulances are dispatched.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • But the foreman, who asked that his name be withheld, said that’s not good enough.
    Joe Dwinell, Boston Herald, 25 June 2025
  • Amid all that drama, the judge rejected the foreman’s efforts to exit the case and denied a defense motion to get a mistrial declared.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • But a longstanding argument against any updates to the sculpture, said Dan Wenk, the former superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, is that the piece of art is already finished, visually and rhetorically.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 5 July 2025
  • Adam Friday resigned as acting superintendent for the sanitation department, effective June 3, two weeks after the incident with Street Commissioner Brandon Downey, town records show.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • And when Paul manages to elude his overseers and explore the surrounding area — spurring a frantic search, the menacing tenor of which raises Lise’s hackles — the movie effectively becomes a prison drama, with the trio’s eventual interviewee depicted as a shadowy warden who can decide their fate.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • The overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is waging an online battle to force out Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
    Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Mike Lé Han’s next psychological horror, Don’t Look Inside, has set its principal cast before kicking off production this fall in Minnesota.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 24 June 2025
  • Among them, El Camino Creek School Principal Jodi Greenberger spoke out on behalf of herself and the eight other principals in the district, sharing that the leadership team does not support the addition of a charter school.
    Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • After they were discovered by her boss, she was also forced to kill her superior and burned all the participant files.
    Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • His father, Curtis, took the day off work from a General Electric small appliances plant in Allentown to watch his son in person, fortuitously getting permission from his boss — who was himself the father of a major league pitcher, Curt Simmons.
    Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • As the skipper of a 2024 pennant-winner, Boone has the honor of managing the American League in this year’s All-Star Game.
    Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 26 June 2025
  • Register at skippers meeting at 10 a.m. July 4 at the yacht club, 1950 Harbor Drive North.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025

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“Leadman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/leadman. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.

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