MIDDLE MANAGERS Synonyms: 24 Similar Words

middle managers

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In Lean In and McKinsey’s 2024 Women in the Workplace study, 78% of managers said more is expected of them than a few years ago, most often around employee well-being, career development and inclusion.

— Anna Maria Chavez, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
In the eighteen-seventies, after thieves began kidnapping bank managers, James Sargent invented the first commercially successful time lock.

— Shayla Love, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026

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Kotlikoff's letter did not explain why these events are only being issued now — two years after administrators at Cornell learned about the allegations in 2024.

— Elissa Nadworny, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
Bogen, along with two commissioners, several administrators, and a group of supporters, was denied access.

— Morgan Rynor, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of administrators

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Chen advised supervisors facing decision fatigue to review shots within their sequences rather than obsess over individual frames.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
That has to happen by a county board of supervisors voting to put a data center in your backyard.

— Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of supervisors

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The list of senior executives did not answer the question of who would oversee the old Paramount and Warner Bros.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
Economists and executives warned of thinning global oil buffers, with conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine piling pressure on the energy supply chain.

— Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of executives

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University personnel were on-site to support the visiting teams and sent an apology email to the recreation directors at the affected schools, as well as the presidents of the participating teams.

— Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 13 Oct. 2026
But much like the way studios and directors of the 1960s and ’70s embraced the once-taboo profanity and nudity, this year AI has found a new wave of advocates eager to go public.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of directors

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Throughout the process, Wakim said, the McCoys worked with Ricky Dauenhauer — who owned NAE Contracting with his wife, Chantal Dauenhauer — as well as with project superintendents employed by NAE Contracting.

— Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026
The district had worked with SYDKIMYL in some capacity since 2019, but the expansive new contract would have Kimberly provide coaching for principals at 10 CMS middle schools as well as three assistant superintendents.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of superintendents

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The latest friction and finger-pointing between the two leaders is yet another data point in what has been at times a combustible relationship.

— Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 15 Oct. 2026
The older contingent of media and entertainment leaders have to come to grips with the fact that the world’s population is getting younger.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of leaders

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The organizers have thrown open the doors to the wider world of content and distribution – and nowadays YouTube execs and creator businesses mingle with TV buyers and sellers.

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
Alfozan did not have authority to access the room, which is exclusively reserved for execs and their assistants.

— Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 15 Oct. 2026

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