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confreres

noun

variants also confrères

plural of confrere

as in colleagues

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 confreres The elegant bones of this iconic property—once the martini-marinated playground of Sinatra and his Rat Pack confreres—remain unmistakably intact. — David Weiss, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025

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Using layer-by-layer atomic deposition, professors Seongshik Oh, Hee Taek Yi, and their colleagues created flawless crystalline films just 40 nanometers thick—roughly a thousand times thinner than a human hair.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026
Raman’s colleagues on the City Council have trashed her like bullies out of a boarding school novel.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

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