micromanager

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for micromanager
Noun
  • As the sun joins taskmaster Saturn in Pisces, your eighth house of transformation and catharsis becomes illuminated.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Go From Managing Tasks To Developing People One of the most significant mindset shifts great leaders make is moving from manager as taskmaster to manager as developer.
    Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Even historically celebrated geniuses like Albert Einstein or Steve Jobs benefited immensely from working in fields that were fertile with change, ripe for disruption, and full of hard-working builders, makers, managers, and workers.
    Mark Nevins, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Most significant, though, was the presence of Egil Olsen, a manager derided as a dinosaur at the time but who looks, in hindsight, an awful lot like a pioneer.
    Rory Smith, The Athletic, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Both were industrious strivers at work and strict disciplinarians at home.
    Danielle Amir Jackson, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2025
  • After three years with John Fox, Pace didn’t need to fully reset the culture inside Halas Hall and bring in an experienced disciplinarian because Fox had helped clean up the mess left behind by the Phil Emery/Marc Trestman administration.
    Adam Jahns, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • County supervisors bought into his ongoing call for a total transformation of the local mental health care system, shifting toward crisis centers at a time when many in the community were calling for the immediate construction of new locked units attached to major medical centers.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Bass is the sole challenger to Jordan, who was first elected Rich Township supervisor in 2021, in the April 1 election.
    Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But Muir’s co-moderator, Linsey Davis, was a different case: Davis wore a mannish, gray suit jacket and struck a pose of martinet — almost schoolmarmish — solemnity.
    Armond White, National Review, 20 Sep. 2024
  • There’s Cece’s father, long vanished; Ronnie, a predator; Marcel, a martinet; Joel, a manipulator; and a random catcaller in the street, whom Cece sends scurrying away by turning her acting skills to practical use.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
Noun
  • Lessin considered running for overseer again but gave up the idea.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The Chargers possess one of the best offensive lines in the NFL, and Harris, rushing for over 1,000 yards in each of his first four NFL seasons, appears to be a recipe for success on paper for head coach Jim Harbaugh, who is a stickler for a good running game.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Host Ken Jennings is a stickler for correct pronunciation, and some of his decisions have led to outrage from fans and contestants.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The school board sought input from parents, staff and students in the search for a new superintendent, according to the release.
    Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
  • With that last incident, the fans were both disciplined, as the Bellmore-Merrick superintendent and athletic director apologized to Elmont in person at their high school, Section VIII Director Patrick Pizzarelli told The Post.
    Scott Thompson, Fox News, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Micromanager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micromanager. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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