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

Their decisions came the day before the House returned to Washington and as both faced the prospect of being expelled from the chamber by their colleagues.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and his colleagues in other states are reportedly scrutinizing the merger and considering legal action to block it.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 15 Apr. 2026