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Recent Examples of company man
Barkley then fired back on X, accusing Barber of being a company man for the team.
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Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2024
After appearing as supercilious EPA company man Walter Peck in Ghostbusters, Atherton completed his trilogy of goofy comedies with Real Genius (1985) and Bio-Dome (1996).
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2023
Charles Martinet, the Nintendo company man who has voiced English-language Mario since 1991, is-a retiring from doing the Mario voice.
—Vulture, 21 Aug. 2023
There's the jealous religious leaders fearing loss of power, the company man concerned about keeping his job and keeping order ... and a betrayer whose love of wealth overcomes his love for a friend.
—Lauren Green, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
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Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2024
After appearing as supercilious EPA company man Walter Peck in Ghostbusters, Atherton completed his trilogy of goofy comedies with Real Genius (1985) and Bio-Dome (1996).
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2023
Charles Martinet, the Nintendo company man who has voiced English-language Mario since 1991, is-a retiring from doing the Mario voice.
—Vulture, 21 Aug. 2023
There's the jealous religious leaders fearing loss of power, the company man concerned about keeping his job and keeping order ... and a betrayer whose love of wealth overcomes his love for a friend.
—Lauren Green, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for company man
Noun
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that symptoms of Guinea worm disease, caused by consuming the parasite Dracunculus medinensis, might not manifest until a year after infection.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Jan. 2025
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To some, these new arrivals were symptoms of rot – parasites attaching themselves to a dying host.—
Martin McKenzie-Murray,
SPIN,
7 Jan. 2025
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Punk and Emo, the forerunners of today’s worm-mollusks, lived on the dark seafloor amid gardens of sponges, nearly 200 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged on land.—
Kate Golembiewski,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2025
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Add the detergent to the water then dip the sponge or cloth in the water and get to work on the spot.—
Cody Godwin,
USA TODAY,
2 Jan. 2025
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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
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The latest iteration of Venezuela’s long-running crisis began after the head of the National Electoral Council, a Maduro apparatchik, declared him the victor on July 29th, with fifty-one per cent of the vote to forty-four per cent for González.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
The New Yorker,
12 Sep. 2024
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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
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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
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People are going to bail on the subscription model like a dog shaking off leeches.—
Ron Hart,
SPIN,
10 Jan. 2025
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Roving like hungry jackals, smallmouth bass will move down and along drop-offs, hunting for the holdout crayfish, leeches, and insects along their way.—
Kubie Brown,
Outdoor Life,
3 Oct. 2024
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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/company%20man. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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