boss around
Example Sentences
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The point of the order is to eliminate government dispensations that let the firms boss around companies.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
"It really seems like kind of a bread-and-butter strategy they use to signal to their borrower that 'We're the big boss around here'," Brad Parks explains.
From BBC • Sep. 29, 2021
Fran Fine might have been able to wrap the boss around her red-lacquered little finger, but Drescher is the boss.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2020
It’s tech we’re supposed to be able to boss around that bosses us around instead.
From Slate • Dec. 28, 2018
Don’t you want some cousins to boss around?
From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
