yes-man

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Recent Examples of yes-man 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 Ferguson slams Reichert over Trump Ferguson repeatedly attempted to paint Reichert as a yes-man to former President Trump, who won less than 40% of the vote in Washington state in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Melissa Santos, Axios, 11 Sep. 2024 Since virtually all members of the Russian political elite have been directly appointed to their posts by Putin or his cronies, the group represents not a genuine team but a board of yes-men. Vladislav Inozemtsev, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2011 The codependency with — and resentment of — various yes-men. Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024 The Larry David of the show is an irritable man with a wife (Cheryl Hines), who eventually leaves him, and a sidekick (Jeff Garlin), who is his manager and yes-man. Boris Kachka, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024 Now trying to make a comeback, Jocelyn is surrounded by yes-men and people who want to take advantage of her. Jasmine Li, Vulture, 31 May 2023 Still, running against Mr. Trump so directly will force Mr. Pence to confront the contradictions inherent in having served as the president’s yes-man for four years through the turmoil of the Trump administration. Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 15 May 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yes-man
Noun
  • Small medieval villages are demolished in the wake of hell’s minions pouring forth from their dimension and into the next.
    Kazuma Hashimoto, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2025
  • At just 17 years old, Amanda Seyfried booked her breakout role in Mean Girls as Regina George’s bimbo minion who could predict the weather with her boobs.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Video shared on social media shows one soldier donning an Arizona Wildcat flag descending rapidly before rolling over upon impact.
    Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Canned goods and other non-perishables had to be sent to our soldiers who were fighting for our freedom.
    Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • He was often ridiculed by contemporaries, including renowned adherents of the Nation of Islam such as Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali, as being too actively focused on integration and too passively focused on Black empowerment, critiques of the Black political establishment that persist today.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Though the government's counter-offensive was able to largely contain the insurgency, footage surfaced of what appeared to be retaliatory attacks targeting the broader minority Alawite community, an offshoot of Shia Islam whose adherents live mainly in the western coastal region.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This is the grim lesson—one that the ambitious sycophants who attach themselves to power have always been slow to learn—of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy, a series of fat, dense novels that filter the reign of Henry VIII through the rise and fall of his Machiavellian advisor, Thomas Cromwell.
    Judy Berman, Time, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Heslov said that Clooney has made sure to keep his old friends close, so he isn’t surrounded by sycophants.
    Thea Traff, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Yes-man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yes-man. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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