detail man
Example Sentences
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The Post once called him a “quiet manager, a detail man who some employees say appears to feel more comfortable with computer printouts than with his colleagues.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2023
As Dunn points out, he was a detail man, not a big thinker like his uncle.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2019
Mr. Vorse was the detail man, he said.
From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2016
But Hirschmann spent most days in the Turkish city as a detail man: leasing rust-bucket cargo ships, re-outfitting them for passengers, and interceding with harbormasters.
From Slate • Sep. 24, 2014
Strangely enough, however, many of them do not know this, and over and over again we find the detail man wearing himself into nervous prostration in the wrong vocation.
From Analyzing Character by Blackford, Katherine M. H.
