straw bosses

plural of straw boss

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for straw bosses
Noun
  • Another issue, according to some large investment fund managers, is that investors’ concern.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Jones said of her managers' directives.
    Gabrielle Fonrouge,Paige Tortorelli, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In internal meetings, Flores said, leaders urged top supervisors to maintain silence and rally around Bianco, who publicly mocked the investigation as a political stunt.
    Christopher Damien, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Corpus is also accused of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with her former chief of staff Victor Aenlle, who was fired by the board of supervisors last year.
    Ryan Macasero, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Brownstone principals Banks, Max Handelman and Alison Small will produce.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 9 Sep. 2025
  • After a two-week nomination period due to the Labor Day holiday, The Tennessean received five responses from guidance counselors, coaches, teachers and principals.
    Gabrielle Chenault, Nashville Tennessean, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Anastasios Kamoutsas, Florida Commissioner of Education, sent a warning to teachers and superintendents in the Sunshine State, on the heels of Turning Point USA co-founder and CEO Charlie Kirk's assassination on Wednesday.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Coming up on a half year into the job, Cassellius is pushing hard, tackling some of the big issues that face the state’s largest and most troubled school district, talking to lots of people in lots of places, including some that MPS superintendents haven’t visited often.
    Alan J. Borsuk, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The women’s orchestra, separated from their fellow inmates in a special block, was required by their Nazi overseers to play jaunty marches every morning and evening so that other female prisoners kept in step as they were sent to work outside the camp.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • As did much of southern Italy, Monopoli had successive overseers that included the Byzantines, Normans, Venetians and Spanish before becoming part of the new Kingdom of Italy as of 1860.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • CEOs and global leaders will gather for a dynamic, invitation-only event shaping the future of business.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025
  • For leaders, balancing these demands with thoughtful stewardship can feel like an impossible task.
    Jacob Kupietzky, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • These include helping your family, helping your group, demonstrating reciprocity, demonstrating bravery, respecting a hierarchy and your superiors, dividing resources in an equitable way and respecting ownership of property.
    Tracy Brower, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • When there is an incident involving the police, such as an arrest or a traffic stop, police officers should assume they are being watched by their body cameras, which could then be inspected by their superiors.
    Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • His two surviving children, daughters Shauna and Amy Redford, and his grandchildren are all seen as potential stewards of the family's artistic and environmental legacy.
    Hannah Parry Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Another large topic broached in the sit-down interview was the ethics and morals that inform ChatGPT and its stewards.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Straw bosses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straw%20bosses. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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