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as in taskmaster
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Recent Examples of micromanager
He was famed as a micromanager who took a hand in every step of the hitmaking process.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2026
Counsell has never forgotten how hard the game is, resisting the urge to become a micromanager.
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Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
Rose is a micromanager, and lousy in a crisis.
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Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
While in theory that might result in some overlapping of skill sets between her and Bloys, Holland is not known as a micromanager (just the opposite), and both execs have a reputation for getting along well with others.
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Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
11 Dec. 2025
One of the most famous CEOs who has been repeatedly cited as a micromanager was Apple’s Steve Jobs.
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Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
26 June 2026
Counsell has never forgotten how hard the game is, resisting the urge to become a micromanager.
—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
Rose is a micromanager, and lousy in a crisis.
—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Jan. 2026
While in theory that might result in some overlapping of skill sets between her and Bloys, Holland is not known as a micromanager (just the opposite), and both execs have a reputation for getting along well with others.
—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
11 Dec. 2025
One of the most famous CEOs who has been repeatedly cited as a micromanager was Apple’s Steve Jobs.
—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
16 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for micromanager
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Still, as the day progresses, Mercury approaches a square to taskmaster Saturn, which becomes exact very early tomorrow.
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She is thrown into isolation before getting the opportunity to once again assimilate, Marc is a genuine taskmaster, but a dedicated defender publicly and to the cops about the legitimacy of his operation and its residents.
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Kelce played a bully of a restaurant manager who fires a busboy (played by Bad Bunny).
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Offers three-credit-bureau monitoring, VPN, dark web monitoring, password manager, email aliases and instant credit lock.
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During his time with the Yankees, Mendoza was known as a disciplinarian behind the scenes, but the team loved and respected his hard coaching.
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You are asked to be teachers, counselors, social workers, disciplinarians, mentors, advocates, crisis managers and emotional anchors for children navigating an increasingly complicated world.
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All the spending on the national events angers one supervisor at a Florida airport.
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For this story, a Yolo County spokesperson agreed to an interview with CBS News Sacramento on the grand jury's findings and the board of supervisors' response.
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His chief antagonist is his caustic first wife, Queen Marguerite (Joy DeMichelle), who operates as a kind of a martinet death doula.
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Jessie Gaynor, an author and LitHub editor, remembers one impactful scene in the tobacco field when an overseer forced Addy to eat a worm.
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The whole thing is connected wirelessly to a simple controller, which the human overseer uses to dictate the roach’s movement.
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Aguirre is a stickler like that.
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Her employer may also be a stickler for being punctual.
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While taking the ferry to Liberty Island, Muir spoke to Captain Hamilton Clancy, who grew up in the shadow of the statue as his grandfather used to be the superintendent of Liberty Island.
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How the office will change All of the state superintendent’s authority will transfer to the education commissioner, who will be named by the governor and then approved by the state Senate.
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“Micromanager.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micromanager. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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