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It’s also got an amazing cast of pencil pushers who go over the edge trying to save their own lives by taking the lives of others, see: John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona, John C. McGinley, and more.
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—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2024
Legacy operators are being nudged out by pencil pushers and industrious Yemeni tobacco-shop owners.
—Jay Bulger, Rolling Stone, 13 Aug. 2024
This might sound normal for your typical office worker, stuck at home during the pandemic, but Wolfe is no pencil pusher.
—Andrew Weaver, Outside Online, 3 July 2020
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First Known Use
1881, in the meaning defined above
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“Pencil pusher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pencil%20pusher. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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