Thesaurus results for COHORT

cohort

noun

ˈkō-ˌhȯrt

Definition of cohort

as in associate

a person frequently seen in the company of another if you're trying to give up drinking, your cohorts shouldn't be confirmed party animals

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as in accomplice

one associated with another in wrongdoing she and her cohorts were arrested for shoplifting

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Recent Examples of cohort Job placement tracks whether recent graduating cohorts — 2020 through 2025 — landed a full-time role or entered graduate school within a year of finishing their degree. — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026 Milly had avoided her cohort in the study abroad program for exactly these rea-sons. — ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026 How Strength Training Affects Longevity The study drew on data from three major long-term health cohorts, the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, the Nurses’ Health Study and the Nurses’ Health Study II. — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Aug. 2026 The findings come from research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, which tracked 147,374 adults across three long-running cohort studies. — Samantha Agate, Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cohort

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Noun

The brand introduced professional instructors who travel across the country to train and support Claire’s store associates.

— Sharon Edelson, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Western governments have shunned and sanctioned Min Aung Hlaing and his associates for overthrowing Suu Kyi's government.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of associate

Noun

She was convicted the following year of being an accomplice to first-degree murder and has been serving life without parole ever since.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 25 July 2026
The consignor was later identified as an accomplice in a separate auction fraud case in Hebei province.

— Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of accomplice

Noun

Unlike Chinese peers such as Xpeng and Xiaomi, Huawei doesn't make cars itself, but its HarmonyOS system essentially provides the brains for the body.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2026
Guimaraes’ bravery on the ball in tight areas can be visualised above, as 12 passes made under high pressure per 90 ranks highly among his peers throughout the European game last season.

— David Ornstein, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of peer

Noun

Matt Koch, the lawns research fellow for gardening giant Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, met recently with the president to discuss planting new grass on the White House’s South Lawn.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Reshuffle in Google's C-suite Google announced a reshuffle of its AI divisions on Wednesday, with chief scientist Jeff Dean leaving after 27 years to start his own company, alongside Google senior fellow Sanjay Ghemawat.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of fellow

Noun

My husband, for example, takes an annual golf trip with his friends.

— Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 5 Aug. 2026
Several celebrities and their PR teams have denounced Perez for his viscous public insults, from Khloe Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, and Lady Gaga, a former friend of Perez.

— Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of friend

Noun

Hoyer had conversations with old buddy Scott Harris, the Detroit Tigers president, about acquiring Skubal, but nothing serious.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2026
A lot of local people could see him in their son, or boyfriend, or high school buddy who had ended up on the wrong path.

— Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of buddy

Noun

In that case, a middle school student targeted 11 female classmates in deepfake images, and the school delayed contacting police until after concluding its own internal investigation.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
Hobbs asked the judge to sentence Gray to 20 years, saying that would be comparable to punishment of Jennifer and James Crumbley, the parents of a teenager who killed four of his classmates at a Michigan high school.

— N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 31 July 2026

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