Thesaurus results for COLLEAGUES

colleagues

noun

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plural of colleague

as in peers

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 colleagues After more than 11 years with the Golden Police Department, Chief Joe Harvey was honored by colleagues, friends and family for his service and compassion. —

Karen Morfitt, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026 Vulnerable, voiceless elders in Miami-Dade who are removed from their homes for their own good will likely wind up in the hands of an Adult Protective Services supervisor promoted to a position of unparalleled power despite the objections of family members and whistleblowing colleagues. —

Miami Herald, 2 Apr. 2026 Armed with artificial lights, Marco sat his sister at a desk across from a golden cryostat, which her colleagues use to freeze detectors to temperatures colder than the vacuum of space to hunt for subatomic particles zipping by. —

Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026 Edison Lee, the bank's China Head of Tech & Apple, told colleagues that demand for memory chips from companies making servers has driven price rises of 70%-plus, quarter on quarter, and that could go up another 50% in Q2 2026, according to a note seen by Fortune. —

Jim Edwards, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026 Instead of mundane morning interactions, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk suggests that offices should engage in joyful group activities like dance parties to foster camaraderie and support, especially for colleagues healing from trauma, while empowering employees and cultivating community. —

Big Think, 1 Apr. 2026 Kittleson had been stopped before by security forces and militias at checkpoints, Iraqi colleagues said, and had always managed to secure her release. —

ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026 The director of aviation, Haley Gentry, makes the most compared to her department colleagues. —

Caitlin McGlade, Charlotte Observer, 26 Mar. 2026 Abu Safiya's son and colleagues, including at the nonprofit MedGlobal, have staunchly rejected the allegations against him. —

Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 25 Mar. 2026

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Eric Schmidt, a former Google CEO, has invested in Ukrainian drone manufacturers and believes that the Ukrainians could one day overtake their Western peers in the arms market.

— Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
Miles away in the nation's capital, Germantown Friends alumnus and current Howard University student Isaac Okewole is also resonating with the same song, along with his peers in the university's first a cappella group.

— Caché McClay, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026