as in partner
a fellow worker
on her first day at work her colleagues went out of their way to make her feel welcome
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Recent Examples of colleague
The former speaker caught fire from some of her Democratic colleagues, who saw her as having a critical role in pushing former President Joe Biden out of the 2024 presidential race.
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Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2025
Leavitt and her colleagues could stock the briefing room’s front rows with sycophantic figures – or move more serious questioners to the back.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
In the meantime, Jasso and her colleagues doled out hot instant soup, fresh fruit and backpacks through the slots in the fence.
—Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
In this mostly fictional version, the reclusive Omara has to decide whether or not to come back from retirement and record with her old colleagues from the fervent Cuban years, thus confronting those ghosts.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
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Ramsey Touchberry, The Washington Examiner, 31 Mar. 2025
Leavitt and her colleagues could stock the briefing room’s front rows with sycophantic figures – or move more serious questioners to the back.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
In the meantime, Jasso and her colleagues doled out hot instant soup, fresh fruit and backpacks through the slots in the fence.
—Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2025
In this mostly fictional version, the reclusive Omara has to decide whether or not to come back from retirement and record with her old colleagues from the fervent Cuban years, thus confronting those ghosts.
—Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colleague
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Adamson is the co-founder and managing partner of Metaforce, a marketing consultancy, and the author of Seeing the How: Transforming What People Do, Not Buy, To Gain Market Advantage, which is about consumer behavior, behavioral psychology and marketing analysis.—
A Martínez,
NPR,
31 Mar. 2025
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This could entail scenarios such as broader tariffs on the European Union, an additional 10% levy on goods from China, or country-level tariffs on other major trading partners such as Vietnam, Japan, Korea and India.—
Hakyung Kim,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2025
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In fact: 85% of employees have dealt with an annoying coworker.—
Elizabeth Pearson,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, acerbic tough guy Dave Moss (Burr) presents his airy coworker George Aaronow (McKean) with a plan to stick it to their ungrateful bosses by stealing all of the Glengarry real estate leads and selling them to another agency.—
Emlyn Travis,
EW.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Fall-Out During that trip to Western Pennsylvania, my buddy and I stuck four trout in two days.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
3 Apr. 2025
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Lou was brought home, happy and healthy, to the obvious delight of his best buddy.—
Terry Baddoo,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2025
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By now, though, it’s become clear that the president is beholden to associates who take money to lobby for ByteDance, which is deeply tied to Beijing’s military-industrial complex.—
The Editors,
National Review,
5 Apr. 2025
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Trump commutes sentence of Jason Galanis, a former Hunter Biden associate who cooperated with the GOP House investigation.—
Domenico Montanaro,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2025
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Even when Black women do break through, their work is often undervalued or held to a different standard than their peers.—
Kedean Smith,
Essence,
3 Apr. 2025
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Most people of her generation didn’t talk about this with their kids, so most of my peers knew very little about it.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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In 2021, Mishal Reja, M.D., was an incoming gastroenterology fellow at State University of New York, Downstate and contributor to the ABC News Medical Unit.—
Dr. Mishal Reja,
ABC News,
3 Apr. 2025
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Porter is a senior fellow for the Center for Educational Innovation and the former chancellor of New York City Public Schools.—
Randy Peers,
New York Daily News,
2 Apr. 2025
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“Colleague.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colleague. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.
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