pencil pusher
Example Sentences
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The hiring is mostly focused on pencil pushers, and even the increased enforcement is focused on the richest Americans.
From Salon
Villanelle, an elegant assassin excelled in her profession by being invisible; Eve's invisibility as a pencil pusher at MI5 made it easy for her peers to ignore her.
From Salon
She once again began at an entry-level position, as a “pencil pusher,” she said, before slowly carving out an expertise in Arab-Israeli relations.
From Washington Post
“I was the pencil pusher, doing a lot of research. My state of the art tools were a slide rule and a Frieden computer. We were taking the theoretical and making it real.”
From The Verge
Turned up at the EU for a conflab with the pencil pushers of Brussels.
From The Guardian
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