company man

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Recent Examples of company man Cena has always been a company man. Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025 Everyone was being a company man. Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 26 Oct. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for company man
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Noun
  • The United States is dropping about 100 million sterile flies each week in southern Mexico to help slow the spread of the parasite.
    Clara Migoya, AZCentral.com, 16 July 2025
  • Colton was also prescribed a parasite treatment due to diarrhea, the warrant affidavit said.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Spray the mixture onto your countertops and let the solution sit for 3-5 minutes before wiping it down with a soft sponge or cloth.
    Daley Quinn, Southern Living, 22 July 2025
  • These extended wait times alone could cause a child to miss out entirely on the benefits of intervention during the sponge years.
    Rachelle Rutherford, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Modi began his career as an RSS apparatchik before being sent by the organization to work for the BJP.
    HARTOSH SINGH BAL, Foreign Affairs, 30 June 2025
  • The new play now at A Red Orchid Theatre is about the existential angst that flows from an acting role only a Soviet apparatchik could truly love: standing in for a murderous dictator with myriad enemies.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Unlike the broad and more public validation that social media provides from getting likes, one-on-one conversations with chatbots can feel more intimate and potentially more convincing — not unlike the yes-men who surround the most powerful tech bros.
    Parmy Olson, Mercury News, 12 July 2025
  • The yes-men and yes-women in his Cabinet approve of everything Trump does, for fear of losing their cushy jobs.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 May 2025
Noun
  • When the writer Mary Roach went to visit the Mütter offices, Hicks greeted her with one of his pet leeches hanging from his arm.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • Stay close to the leaders and lifters and move away from the loafers and leeches.
    Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025

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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/company%20man. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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