rank and file

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The stew of issues bubbling through the transactions is why most of the rank and file at CNN rooted for Netflix to prevail in its bidding for Warner Bros.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

But the rank and file, the “MAHA moms,” can be divided into two broad categories, which we’ll call the individualists and the structuralists.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026

“Some of that certainly derives from the remote leadership style in which the concerns of the rank and file seem to be routinely overturned,” Lurie said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2025

Or a pressure valve for a leader that sometimes winds up the rank and file.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025

At the very bottom of J. T.’s organization were as many as two hundred members known as the rank and file.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt