Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for straw bosses
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Mission managers said earlier the isolated manifold is not needed for the crew's return to Earth.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
9 Apr. 2026 -
The court in March allowed Range’s unfair competition claim to proceed while dismissing its tortious interference claim, which accused CAA of undermining the firm’s potential recruitment of agency employees who wish to become managers by threatening to cancel the equity of defecting workers.—
Winston Cho,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Apr. 2026
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The lawsuit — which alleges police violated the men’s civil rights, used excessive force and intentionally inflicted emotional stress — says that nearby supervisors failed to intervene.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
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The open question—and the one that will shape whether the megamanager era is remembered as a productivity breakthrough or a management crisis—is whether the supervisors still standing can pull off the same trick.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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As the city has become a year-round base, their clients—often finance and tech principals relocating from New York and California—expect homes to support work, family life, and entertaining without interruption.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
31 Mar. 2026
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The principals at Anonymous shared that their new VP Mather has been instrumental in identifying and shepherding projects across film and television in his nearly seven-year run there, most recently as Director of Development.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
31 Mar. 2026
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Both of the city’s school districts will also have new superintendents starting next school year.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
8 Apr. 2026
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The superintendents of both the Fridley district, in suburban Minneapolis, and the Duluth district, in northern Minnesota, were in the courtroom for the arguments.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
8 Apr. 2026
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In other words, Doomsayers see a world of declining resources that needs overseers to divvy them up.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
20 Mar. 2026
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While the model still lacks the judgment or taste of its human overseers, executives don’t expect that gap to last long.—
Harry Booth,
Time,
11 Mar. 2026
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In response to that criticism, California leaders last year created a carve out that exempts certain projects in urban areas from needing a CEQA review to move forward.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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More than a half-dozen potential candidates are speaking here to make inroads among Black leaders, one of Democrats' most powerful voting blocs.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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The younger Altman was ousted in February 1998 for failing to tell his superiors about the existence of a controversial videotape that showed firefighters drinking beer and using racial slurs at a firehouse retirement party, the Tribune previously reported.—
Caroline Kubzansky,
Chicago Tribune,
18 Mar. 2026
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All three had been asked by their superiors to replace the plates on their cars but refused, McNicholas said.—
Fedor Zarkhin,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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The Republican Party embraced neoconservatism; Buchanan and his cohort were the stewards of an ideology for cranks.—
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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At the same period of time, Congress has to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Straw bosses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straw%20bosses. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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