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Recent Examples of company man
Cena has always been a company man.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for company man
Noun
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Grooming too frequently can indicate issues such as parasites, allergies, infections, pain, or stress.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 July 2025
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Their demise was later hastened by a parasite called Bonamia ostreae, which is thought to have been imported from California around 1979.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
29 July 2025
Noun
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That’ll play for this group, and Hassanein has been a sponge in training camp, picking the brains of Aidan Hutchinson and Penei Sewell.—
Colton Pouncy,
New York Times,
31 July 2025
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Higher tier players, all but a few crazies, are going to burn out with this insane difficulty that is often not necessarily difficulty, but endless sponges and the simple inability to ever feel truly strong.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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,
Twin Cities,
23 July 2025
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And, Parikh adds, general models can be somewhat of yes-men.—
Zoya Hasan,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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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
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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 7 Aug. 2025.
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