coworkers

variants or co-workers
plural of coworker

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Recent Examples of coworkers Busy Bar started with a cardboard box with an LED strip as a stoplight to let coworkers know you’re occupied. — Nina Elder, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 Her coworkers have concerns about workplace safety, harassment, verbal abuse and intimidation, according to the news release. — Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2026 Court records show Carroll was accused of masturbating and urinating on work equipment and on coworkers' personal belongings inside the Baltimore County Fire Station 2 in Pikesville and the Baltimore County Public Safety Building. — Bryan Lynn, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026 Being able to have the in-person connectivity with talking to your coworkers, being able to collaborate, is great and then also the larger programming of the company as a whole. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026 As the deadline approached, Claude responded by threatening to blackmail Johnson, revealing the affair to his wife and coworkers unless the replacement was called off. — Kevin Roose, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026 Jeremy Culhane stars as Eric from Legal, a down-on-his-luck man who chimes in on gossip sessions with his coworkers with depressing tidbits from his own life. — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2026 Sipping tea from beer mugs with his coworkers, Kyle Bos listed the ways his life is changing. — Josh Boak, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2026 In the company cafeteria, Hara watched as his coworkers squared off over a game of Go, a board game played with black and white stones on a grid. — HubSpot, 1 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coworkers
colleagues
Noun
  • New Skydance content sales chief David Decker was all smiles at the WBD stand, able to look over and see his new Paramount colleagues just along the beachfront.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Eventually, Chili invites Lee over to his house, far away from the ears of his former colleagues shooting pool at Secrets.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026

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“Coworkers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coworkers. Accessed 22 Oct. 2026.

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