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
He said the rank and file had been hardened “in the fight against corruption” and praised them as “entirely trustworthy.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
The rank and file may take a very different view.
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026
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
