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
  • Gartner was Rodriguez-Kennedy’s immediate supervisor.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • In Cincinnati, supervisors at NIOSH’s two local sites – both of which investigate claims of injury and illness and develop programs to prevent them – were put on administrative last Tuesday.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • If a manager violates this requirement, the association may terminate the management contract.
    Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 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
  • What adds to the speculation is the claim made by Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 July 2025
  • During a news conference on Friday at the British Grand Prix, questions were put to three team principals about Mayer’s announcement.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • But a longstanding argument against any updates to the sculpture, said Dan Wenk, the former superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, is that the piece of art is already finished, visually and rhetorically.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 5 July 2025
  • Adam Friday resigned as acting superintendent for the sanitation department, effective June 3, two weeks after the incident with Street Commissioner Brandon Downey, town records show.
    Jim Woods, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2025
Noun
  • And when Paul manages to elude his overseers and explore the surrounding area — spurring a frantic search, the menacing tenor of which raises Lise’s hackles — the movie effectively becomes a prison drama, with the trio’s eventual interviewee depicted as a shadowy warden who can decide their fate.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
  • The overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is waging an online battle to force out Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
    Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Car chases were as reliable a trope as the maverick officer with his own moral code mouthing off to superiors, or the battle-scarred veteran who’s seen it all and just wants to eat donuts and make it to retirement.
    Maris Kreizman, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
  • There was always the risk that he could be associated with more strident calls for change and earn the ire of his superiors.
    JOSEPH TORIGIAN, Foreign Affairs, 23 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
  • To alleviate pressure after the diagnosis, her boss needed to reassign some of her larger projects.
    Jillian Frankel, People.com, 27 June 2025
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“Straw boss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straw%20boss. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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