team player

Example Sentences

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I am happy to help others with projects during my downtime, and I believe in the importance of being a team player to achieve the best results.

From Washington Post

Always the team player, Cuomo is using his considerable political capital and his trove of still unspent campaign funds to rebuild the maligned party infrastructure.

From Slate

Determined to win and the “ultimate team player,” Jonathan Quick played a central role in transforming the Kings into Stanley Cup winners.

From Los Angeles Times

Newly signed Tyler Boyd, a former national team player, will play on one wing with either Efrain Alvarez or newly acquired Memo Rodríguez on the other side; designated player Douglas Costa played sparingly during the preseason, leaving his role with the team uncertain.

From Los Angeles Times

For example, Black people in America, especially if they work in majority white spaces as striving members of the middle and professional classes, are deemed to be "distant" and "cold" or "not friendly", "hostile", or the ubiquitous "not a team player" if they do not perform the expected role of being a warm welcoming laughing Black person who makes your white colleagues feel comfortable and validated.

From Salon