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boss

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adjective

slang

boss

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verb

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Recent Examples of boss
Noun
When her studio head boss asks her to fire her head writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) to appease a toxic male movie star, Vance decides to walk away, and does it in on air. Megan Thomas, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025 From basic enemy encounters and big boss fights to simply navigating its world and figuring out where to go next, it’s almost abrasively dedicated to testing the player’s patience. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
This excludes things like putting in legendaries for end of mission rewards or taking them out of non-boss chests. Paul Tassi, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021 Binning notes that Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of the Niles area, a former Traficant aide who won his ex-boss' congressional seat, was re-elected Tuesday by his smallest-ever margin, defeating GOP former state legislator Christina Hagan by 7.5 percentage points. Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2020
Verb
Bertha sits down with Gladys and finds out that Hector and Sarah’s parents died when Hector was young, and Sarah has been bossing him around ever since. Alice Burton, Vulture, 28 July 2025 Ali Larter [who plays Thornton’s feisty ex-wife] bursts through the room wearing half a sarong and starts bossing me around. Emily Longeretta, Variety, 15 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for boss
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boss
Noun
  • That is where creativity lives, where intimacy is built, and where leaders are made.
    Curt Steinhorst, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The pair referred to, Vanderbilt University’s Daniel Diermeier and Washington University’s Andrew Martin, have taken a very different approach than the maximalist resistance stance of many elite university leaders.
    David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Shaw and Harry Maguire were excellent.
    Mark Critchley, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025
  • And this does bode well for interior roominess, which is quite accommodating up front for a variety of heights and body types—plus tremendously comfortable standard sport bucket seats with excellent bolstering.
    Peter Nelson, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vicencio’s criminal history in the county outlines struggles with mental health, and legal trouble over gun possession; he was supervised under the court’s mental-health treatment division for much of 2022.
    Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
  • After that, the rtw was designed by a team supervised by managing director Georgina Brandolini.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Gillan, New York’s punter, was pressed into duty because kicker Graham Gano was ruled questionable with a groin injury before the game.
    The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Auburn believed Sategna had caught the pass before losing control, but after review, officials ruled it incomplete.
    Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Unlocking perks But the rising cost of card membership has led some users to downgrade to lower-tier versions or explore more affordable offerings from Capital One or Citigroup, senior Bankrate analyst Ted Rossman told CNBC in June.
    Hugh Son, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Abreu currently leads the Kubota High Limit Racing standings after securing nine victories so far this season.
    Lydia Mee, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On a white-run construction site in West Africa, an edgy, tightly wound foreman anxiously awaits his bride.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Set on a white-run construction site in West Africa, the story follows an edgy foreman anxiously awaiting his bride, whose presence meets resistance from a cocksure engineer clinging to the hyper-masculine status quo.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • For us, Carson Beck is awesome because his only interest is to making his teammates better.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
  • This year at Imagination in Action in Silicon Valley, 45 innovations vied for the coveted title of most awesome tools.
    John Werner, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Charter schools are overseen by independent boards, overwhelmingly, like nonprofit boards of directors that manage the oversight and then follow all or most of the same government rules related to public schools.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI has hired Mike Liberatore, former finance chief at Elon Musk's xAI, to be the artificial intelligence startup's business finance officer, responsible for overseeing its massive infrastructure spending.
    MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Boss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boss. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.

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