micromanager

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Noun
  • On June 27, savvy Mercury will meet with taskmaster Saturn in a harmonious trine, inspiring both creativity and structure.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 27 June 2025
  • Chalfant illustrates this in the film with exquisite subtlety, assuming by turns the disposition of a coy flirt and a take-charge kitchen taskmaster.
    Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 20 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
  • This is Montgomery's first time as an MLB manager in his coaching career.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • By several accounts, Xi was a ferocious disciplinarian.
    Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • He was variously depicted as both a strict disciplinarian and also an emotionally intelligent father figure to the players.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 1 June 2025
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
  • But Muir’s co-moderator, Linsey Davis, was a different case: Davis wore a mannish, gray suit jacket and struck a pose of martinet — almost schoolmarmish — solemnity.
    Armond White, National Review, 20 Sep. 2024
  • There’s Cece’s father, long vanished; Ronnie, a predator; Marcel, a martinet; Joel, a manipulator; and a random catcaller in the street, whom Cece sends scurrying away by turning her acting skills to practical use.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
Noun
  • The overseers of funds and investments for California, Illinois and half a dozen other states cite Tesla’s sagging stock, disappointing first-quarter deliveries and surge of trade-ins by vehicle owners as being among their causes for concern.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The company has also pledged to work transparently with an independent overseer appointed by the court to evaluate the deal’s effects on consumer privacy, with a report due to the bankruptcy court in June.
    Lars Daniel, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • Wilson had always been a stickler in the studio, the perfectionist who kept repeating takes, bean-counters be damned, until the song felt right.
    Elias Leight, Billboard, 18 June 2025
  • My mom was a stickler for whole foods, locally sourced and nutrient-dense.
    Footwear News, Footwear News, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • As of last weekend, investigators were exploring whether Boelter and the victims knew each other, according to Drew Evans, superintendent of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
    Alex Derosier, Twin Cities, 22 June 2025
  • Other district superintendents then asked for those lists in order to check with their own libraries.
    Steven Walker, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 June 2025
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“Micromanager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micromanager. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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