company man

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Recent Examples of company man 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 In 2014, Microsoft surprised people by promoting the ultimate company man, Satya Nadella, to CEO. Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024 That’s a lot of synergy, and Michaels is a company man. Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for company man
Recent Examples of Synonyms for company man
Noun
  • In exchange, the fish will help the mussel get rid of parasites.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The parasite, named Sirenobethylus charybdis after the seawater-swallowing monster from Greek mythology, may represent a whole new family of insects.
    Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Local dive shops run trips to the wreck, where sea turtles mingle with coral, sponges and cascades of colorful fish.
    Marnie Hunter, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2025
  • Newsletter Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science news David Kaplan has been working with silk for decades, molding and shaping it into scaffolds, sponges, and films.
    Amy Paturel, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In that time, Tucci appeared in a number of films as either a foot soldier, don, or other apparatchik of an underground criminal organization, including Quick Change, Men of Respect, Billy Bathgate, and The Public Eye.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • In a cave in Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, China, researchers have discovered a new species of leech called Sinospelaeobdella jiangxiensis, or the jiangxiensis land leech.
    Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2025
  • These bacteria sustain an entire ecosystem of invertebrates, including leeches, spiders, pseudoscorpions, centipedes and isopods.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2025

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“Company man.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/company%20man. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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