MIDDLE MANAGERS Synonyms: 24 Similar Words

middle managers

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plural of middle manager

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The official purchasing managers’ index indicated that manufacturing activity contracted for two consecutive months in July and August.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
Lessons and performance data gathered through testing, experimentation, and training can be returned to developers and program managers to improve future capabilities.

— Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of managers

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Deadline understands that True Brit, which has distributed titles including Hugh Jackman’s The Death of Robin Hood, has appointed administrators at Simons Muirhead Burton to oversee the company’s affairs.

— Jake Kanter, Deadline, 29 Sep. 2026
Tests show the gaps between subjective grades and real understanding—and this, in turn, gives the public and administrators a sense of which schools are actually teaching their students.

— Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of administrators

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Union County Public Schools has had four permanent superintendents since 2000, and current Superintendent Andrew Houlihan has led the district since 2016.

— Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2026
In a message to District 118 families Thursday, interim co-superintendents Todd Leden and Brian Wegley said Anderlik has been placed on administrative leave and is barred from entering district property or contacting students.

— Mick Zawislak, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of superintendents

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Her argument pushes against a much louder story from Silicon Valley, where AI leaders keep warning that white-collar work is about to be automated.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Corporate leaders go undercover within their own organizations to gain firsthand insight into their workforce and operations.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of leaders

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And Micron execs promised more good times ahead, forecasting revenue in the current quarter that will top analyst targets and explaining that the world's AI data centers will be starved for memory chips for the foreseeable future.

— Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Bloys may well have to sacrifice some of his own team on the altar of fiscal responsibility, or could decide that there are execs at the current Paramount who might be better suited to push his supersize division forward.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

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