as in colleague
a fellow worker
my coworkers and I often send facetious e-mails to one another
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Recent Examples of coworker
The comedy, written by Ansari, also stars Keke Palmer as Arj's labor union organizer coworker Elena and Sandra Oh as Gabriel's otherworldly superior Martha.
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Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Although no publicly available evaluation has classified Stines as mentally deficient, a number of coworkers and friends interviewed by state police said Stines was acting strangely in the days leading up to the shooting of Mullins.
—Andy Rose, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Shawn, according to the article, told his coworkers the family had experienced identity theft, which led them to missing house payments, and Kendra had said she’d been hacked after bouncing a check.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
There, somehow, Steve and his coworkers hope to set their students on a course toward productive citizenship.
—Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
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Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Sep. 2025
Although no publicly available evaluation has classified Stines as mentally deficient, a number of coworkers and friends interviewed by state police said Stines was acting strangely in the days leading up to the shooting of Mullins.
—Andy Rose, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
Shawn, according to the article, told his coworkers the family had experienced identity theft, which led them to missing house payments, and Kendra had said she’d been hacked after bouncing a check.
—Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
There, somehow, Steve and his coworkers hope to set their students on a course toward productive citizenship.
—Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coworker
colleague
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Even some of Barrett’s liberal colleagues have said the Constitution and the rule of law could be at risk.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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Wollweber and his colleagues wanted to see if the Lokiarchaea’s tubulin-like proteins behaved like the eukaryotic versions.—
Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Coworker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coworker. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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