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
Children in classrooms across the country fell silent as their teachers wept at the loss of a colleague.
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
Cenci and colleagues connected Little Red Dots and direct collapse black holes while running high-resolution simulations of cosmic evolution in the early universe.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Weisz portrays said professor, and Woodall is her new colleague.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026
Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, sought to placate his colleagues’ concerns over the use of ICE by the US diplomatic security detail, following increasingly aggressive tactics by the agency in the US.
—Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
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Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
Cenci and colleagues connected Little Red Dots and direct collapse black holes while running high-resolution simulations of cosmic evolution in the early universe.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
Weisz portrays said professor, and Woodall is her new colleague.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2026
Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, sought to placate his colleagues’ concerns over the use of ICE by the US diplomatic security detail, following increasingly aggressive tactics by the agency in the US.
—Antonia Mortensen, CNN Money, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colleague
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Quarterback Matthew Stafford against former Rams linebacker Ernest Jones IV, former dueling partners in practice now leading their units against each other.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
25 Jan. 2026
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The United States is always going to be a vital partner.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
25 Jan. 2026
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The next frontier of work is here, where AI agents are the new coworkers and algorithms operate as office assistants.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Some departments reduced their footprint in Sacramento after the COVID-19 pandemic forced many to work from home and, in the interim years, employees have adapted to sharing workstations with coworkers who are in offices on alternate days.—
William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The Ohio State University has denied a petition to remove the name of Les Wexner—the billionaire fashion magnate, longtime OSU donor and business associate of Jeffrey Epstein—from the football practice facility at the school’s Woody Hayes Athletic Center.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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The Biden administration held negotiations with the Taliban to swap Americans detained in Afghanistan for Muhammad Rahim al Afghani, a Guantanamo Bay detainee alleged to have been an associate of Osama bin Laden, but the talks ultimately fell through.—
Camilla Schick,
CBS News,
26 Jan. 2026
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While Peter’s relationship with Isabel resembles his team-up with Rose Larkin (Luciane Buchanan) in Seasons 1 and 2, Peter and Jay give off buddy comedy vibes in the trailer with their post-chase exchange.—
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
21 Jan. 2026
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That’d be like a guy going to the racetrack with his buddies right when his pregnant wife’s water broke.—
John Phillips,
Oc Register,
20 Jan. 2026
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Lior Torenberg explains what sets the Sad Girl Grifter (SGG) apart from her lying, scheming peers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Jan. 2026
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Those peer institutions have yet to publicly release their NCAA financial reports.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Perhaps equally interesting, teammate and fellow tight end Terrance Ferguson also scored a touchdown against the Seahawks in Week 16.—
Josh Shepardson,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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Then a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Gerber and her team found that dolphins with stronger long-term social partnerships were biologically younger than their more solitary counterparts, as measured by epigenetic markers.—
Hasmik Kirakosyan,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2026
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“Colleague.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colleague. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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