variants also confrère
as in colleague
a fellow worker many of the judge's confreres on the Fifth Circuit bench don't feel as she does on the issue

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Recent Examples of confrere With the show, Tigerman and his confreres, who quickly became known as the Chicago Four (later the Chicago Seven), had made their point about Chicago eclecticism. Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 4 June 2019 Designed by Los Angeles architecture firm Johnston Marklee, the $40 million Institute adds a significant new structure to the ensemble that is more open and buoyant than its confreres. Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 12 Nov. 2018 And the Brazilian police quickly dismantled, through video evidence and the testimony of Lochte's three swimming confreres, the Olympic athlete's shifting fabrications. Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2016 The audience ate it up, and the Czech players had a ball partnering their American confreres, according to Sporcl. John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2017 Some of her confreres were intent on exposing the complex roles of photography in everyday life, especially in advertising and movies. Roberta Smith, New York Times, 11 May 2017 According to this analysis, Murray and his confreres can qualify as charlatans at best, racists at worst, and likely something in between. John McWhorter, National Review, 5 July 2017
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colleague
Noun
  • In the days since the concert, a number of friends, family, and colleagues have asked me about it—mostly inquiring about the set list and the car prop malfunction.
    Leah Faye Cooper, Vogue, 4 July 2025
  • Together with his colleague Richard Wetherald at the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, N.J., Manabe used a simple climate model to show that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 would lead to more efficient trapping of heat in the troposphere.
    Ben Santer, Scientific American, 4 July 2025

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“Confrere.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confrere. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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