Thesaurus results for CONFRERES

confreres

noun

variants also confrères

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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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colleagues

Noun

John Rutherford, a council member who voted against the resolution, asked his colleagues to set aside their political opinions about Musk.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
To investigate this question, Baker and his colleagues carried out large-scale DNA sequencing from samples collected in deep-sea hydrothermal vents as well as shallow coastal areas.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 Mar. 2026