straw boss

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straw boss
Noun
  • God Bless you boss man, the Irsay family and all of Colts Nation.
    Lindsey Erdody, Axios, 21 May 2025
  • In this corner: Frank Costello, the big boss man of organized crime who helped this thing of theirs go from regional to a national syndicate.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 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
  • If a manager violates this requirement, the association may terminate the management contract.
    Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2025
  • Bench coach Ray Montgomery took over on June 20 as the acting — now interim — manager as the Angels entered Friday winners in seven of their last 10 games.
    Benjamin Royer, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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
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
  • Martian clashes over tactics with his superior (Jeffrey Wright), who tussles with his superior (Richard Gere) while their superior, the director of the CIA (Dominic West), periodically beams in from Washington, D.C., to cast doubt over the entire high-risk operation.
    Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
  • Richie ends up attempting to plan a hit on Tony, but after his request is denied by mob superiors, Uncle Junior tips Tony off.
    Skyler Trepel, People.com, 10 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
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“Straw boss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straw%20boss. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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