bosses

Example Sentences

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When Blackstone executive Martin Brand invited a team to his home in the West Village to play poker one evening in 2012, Rao beat his bosses in a winner-takes-all game.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

It's believed Scotland's players tried to petition their bosses to let them go to Brazil.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

Meanwhile, it’s become easy for top bosses to contact junior employees directly — for example, with a Slack message — instead of communicating, as in the past, through layers of management.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

In a damp back alley, Jingjing joined job-seekers milling about leisurely, haggling for higher wages while garment bosses perched on scooters brandished hiring signs, desperate for day labourers.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

In a last-ditch effort, they hatched a plan to appeal directly to Penkovsky's bosses in the GRU—their sworn enemies—to plead for his life.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau