company man

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Recent Examples of company man Coates was once a proud company man. Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024 First-time head coach Campo was a good company man, and solid defensive coordinator. Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Jan. 2025 In 2014, Microsoft surprised people by promoting the ultimate company man, Satya Nadella, to CEO. Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024 That’s a lot of synergy, and Michaels is a company man. Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for company man
Recent Examples of Synonyms for company man
Noun
  • Thanks to modern medicine, people in the United States rarely deal with parasites.
    Breanne Hayes Haney, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2025
  • This LifeStraw, 20 percent off for a pack of two, is proven to filter out 99.9 percent of waterborne bacteria and parasites.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Never submerge in water to wash them because mushrooms absorb like a sponge and become mushy.
    Cathy Thomas, Oc Register, 14 Apr. 2025
  • In water as much as 4,200 feet deep the team from the Schmidt Ocean Institute found a surprisingly flourishing ecosystem that included icefish, giant sea spiders, octopus, corals and sponges.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 13 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In that time, Tucci appeared in a number of films as either a foot soldier, don, or other apparatchik of an underground criminal organization, including Quick Change, Men of Respect, Billy Bathgate, and The Public Eye.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025
  • But his theory seemed to mirror the temperament of Deng, who, for all his reformist tendencies, was a ruthless apparatchik.
    Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Imagine this group of hangers on and yes-men (and women) working with Trump on a national or international crisis.
    Frederic B. Hill, Baltimore Sun, 4 Dec. 2024
  • But if each of those assistants turns into a yes-man, then users run the risk of getting bad information because consensus will be reached too quickly.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • In a cave in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China, researchers have discovered a new species of leech called Sinospelaeobdella jiangxiensis, or the jiangxiensis land leech.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
  • These bacteria sustain an entire ecosystem of invertebrates, including leeches, spiders, pseudoscorpions, centipedes and isopods.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025

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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/company%20man. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

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