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Noun
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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
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Neither his direct supervisor nor his director knew about what was going on, the worker said.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
16 Feb. 2026
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Andy Yung, fisheries supervisor at the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission's Hot Springs office, said stripers sometimes hunt around brushpiles that are located near channels.—
Bryan Hendricks,
Arkansas Online,
15 Feb. 2026
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Macclesfield manager John Rooney dedicated his team’s amazing win to their former player’s memory as the non-league side’s players continue to be inspired by their late teammate.—
Patrick Snell,
CNN Money,
16 Feb. 2026
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One that stood out to Everett Plummer, a manager in the oil division at the time and one of several staffers tasked with investigating the Boarman case, was McCoon 3, an injection well that disposes salty oil field wastewater deep below the earth.—
Nick Bowlin,
The Frontier,
16 Feb. 2026
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The Chilean filmmaker spent over three years on the film, shooting the recreations as well as interviews with the principals and researching archive.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
14 Feb. 2026
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Thomas, 42, spoke to the principal and a teacher and was told that the school wouldn’t have the staff to support the students since the party was after school hours.—
Gillian Stawiszynski,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
14 Feb. 2026
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The Daily News reached out to the Department of the Interior, the National Park Service, and Amy Sebring, who has direct oversight of the monument as the superintendent of park service sites in Manhattan, for comment.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
17 Feb. 2026
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Heather Campos, assistant superintendent of human resources, presented a proposal to potentially cut over 30 full-time positions and 12 substitute teacher jobs by March, due to what the district said is declining enrollment and budget shortfalls.—
Kyle Martin,
Mercury News,
17 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The result is a surreal and darkly comic tale set inside a decaying industrial wig factory, where workers are pushed into punishing overtime shifts by the manipulative incentives of an exploitative lady overseer.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Feb. 2026
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Otherwise, Claude might conceal its secrets where its overseers would never think to look.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Around this time, a young Israeli national-security official reached the same conclusion and began urging his superiors to organize an internal coup against Assad.—
Robert F. Worth,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2026
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But when Commissioner Marty Makary presented that list for sign-off to the Health and Human Services Department, which oversees the FDA, and to the White House in October, his superiors shot it down, the people said.—
Elaine Chen,
STAT,
4 Feb. 2026
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Liberal Democrats who despised Daley as a corrupt big-city boss hailed Jackson as a hero.—
Johanna Neuman,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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Emma Laird is Shannon, this outwardly confident daughter of a crime boss, who is desperate to find real love.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
17 Feb. 2026
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“Straw boss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straw%20boss. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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