straw boss

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for straw boss
Noun
  • God Bless you boss man, the Irsay family and all of Colts Nation.
    Lindsey Erdody, Axios, 21 May 2025
  • In this corner: Frank Costello, the big boss man of organized crime who helped this thing of theirs go from regional to a national syndicate.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Women composers and music supervisors did well this year, with female competitors in five of the seven music categories.
    Jon Burlingame, Variety, 15 July 2025
  • Music supervisor is a job that is part professional music nerd, part aural detective and part crate-digging business affairs exec.
    Peter White, Deadline, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • The manager is responsible for overseeing the operations and production of these areas.
    Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado July 10, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2025
  • With no small amount of pride, property managers associated with Madison Equities led tours of the Degree of Honor building in 2021, showing off the former office building’s full-scale conversion into 78 housing units.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • Cedrick Gray, who was one of the principals Cassellius oversaw at that time, talked about how Cassellius, along with the district’s then-superintendent, Carol Johnson, brought a burst of energy to the district’s middle schools.
    Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025
  • Even Bloomberg tried it but his penchant for micro-managing through quantitative measures and punitive accountability created top-down priorities tying the hands of all but the most forceful principals.
    David Bloomfield, New York Daily News, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • In 2022 he was named superintendent in Calvert County with a four-year contract at an annual salary of $215,000, according to reports.
    Kaitlin McCallum, Hartford Courant, 12 July 2025
  • Grantley Williams, acting superintendent of police for the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force, said in a Facebook video that Tarrence was last seen leaving the Paradise Inn, where the couple was staying in the Grace Bay Area of the island.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • The habitat is disappearing that the FWC are overseers of and are to protect for wildlife.
    Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 July 2025
  • Barnett pointed to Peanuts and Mario Kart as two brands the new Backyard Sports overseers hope to emulate.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • They may also be perceived by co-workers and superiors as hesitant, withdrawn or underperforming.
    Naira Velumyan, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • Last fall, they were convicted in a separate federal case of witness tampering for misleading superiors about their actions.
    Katie Riordan, NPR, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • Jumper eventually became air boss on the Midway, as the Vietnam War was fading out.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • The then-Red Bull boss stated that Ferrari must prioritize becoming a winning team, and admitted that heading it was a high-pressure job.
    Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
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“Straw boss.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/straw%20boss. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.

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