as in colleague
a fellow worker
my coworkers and I often send facetious e-mails to one another
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Recent Examples of coworker
Ashley Padilla stars in this one as a woman who basically can’t stop farting in front of her coworkers.
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Charu Sinha, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2025
Rogen plays Jeff, while Palmer plays Elena, a coworker and love interest of Arj's, marking a Being Mortal reunion in a comedy that tackles economic inequity and the housing crisis.
—Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
Trusted coworkers with similar roles are potential sources.
—Cathy Bussewitz, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Tellis, a State Department employee since 2001 who also worked as a contractor for the Office of Net Assessment within the Department of Defense, had a coworker print multiple classified documents for him during a visit to a DOD facility in Virginia on September 12, court documents allege.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
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Charu Sinha, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2025
Rogen plays Jeff, while Palmer plays Elena, a coworker and love interest of Arj's, marking a Being Mortal reunion in a comedy that tackles economic inequity and the housing crisis.
—Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Oct. 2025
Trusted coworkers with similar roles are potential sources.
—Cathy Bussewitz, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
Tellis, a State Department employee since 2001 who also worked as a contractor for the Office of Net Assessment within the Department of Defense, had a coworker print multiple classified documents for him during a visit to a DOD facility in Virginia on September 12, court documents allege.
—Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coworker
colleague
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In July, when the United Nations put out its own plan for surging food and medicine into Gaza in the event of a cease-fire, the State Department was still hiring the people currently coordinating its Gaza relief work, the current federal employee and one of their colleagues told me.—
Hana Kiros,
The Atlantic,
27 Oct. 2025
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This points to a growing public health concern for younger Americans, a population also experiencing similar increases in colorectal cancer diagnoses, added Kim and colleague Aimal Khan, a colon and rectal surgery professor at Vanderbilt.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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“Coworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coworker. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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