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as in male
an adult male human being what does a fellow have to do to get waited on around here? your son is a bright young fellow

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as in equivalent
one that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value he is well regarded as a chemist by his fellows in the field

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Recent Examples of fellow The New Normal Bruce Hoffman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a longtime terrorism expert, said the erosion of democratic discourse is no longer just theoretical but actively enabling violence. Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025 Joffe is a fellow at California Policy Center. Marc Joffe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025 Steven Perez is a fellow of the University of Texas at Austin English Department. Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025 Residents and fellows, on the other hand, have been employees for much longer because of the structure of their training programs. Patrick Aguilar, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fellow
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fellow
Noun
  • After nearly three years with boyfriend Chase Stokes, country singer Kelsea Ballerini is single once more.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Hong Kong — With their home city Hong Kong unable to honor their wish to get married, Dino Wong and his boyfriend Geoffrey Yu flew more than 2,000 miles across the ocean to Guam to tie the knot in 2019.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One of Mendoza’s associates was waiting for them.
    ProPublica, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In 1951, Husseini’s associates murdered one of his foremost rivals, King Abdullah of Jordan.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Robinson’s roommate is a biological male who identifies as a female, and is cooperating with the FBI on their investigation.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Two Messor structor males that hatched were hairless, while three Messor ibericus males were covered with hair.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Rebels will get the ball first in the second half.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The winger was Arsenal’s brightest spark in the first half, and had just left Dan Ndoye in his wake with one of many dribbles into the Forest penalty area.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The addictive opioid drug is 50 times more potent than morphine and can trigger a fatal overdose with as little as 2 milligrams, the equivalent of a few grains of salt.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The heft of batteries means EVs are generally a few hundred kilograms heavier than their fossil fuel equivalents.
    James Morris, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Drescher played Fran Frine and Shaughnessy played her onscreen boss-turned-beau, Maxwell Sheffield.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025
  • From the outside, Laura could be loving, protective, overbearing, even intrusive — while Cherry sows doubt for hiding pieces of her past despite ostensibly adoring her new beau.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Beat overcommitment syndrome, get the right things done, and build real influence with your colleagues up, down, sideways, and diagonal—all over the organization chart.
    Bruce Tulgan, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • In its history, Everybody Loves Raymond, created by Romano and Philip Rosenthal, received 15 Emmys and 69 total nominations, including for Romano, Garrett, and their colleagues Patricia Heaton, and Peter Boyle.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Another favorite comic novel of mine, this one follows a guy in Beijing who installs custom, old school sound systems for rich people.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Travis is a perfect addition to the rogue gallery of guys Rahill consistently plays across social media — hilarious and singular character studies of very particular and deeply cringey types of dude, replete with his trademark grin.
    Justin Caffier, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Fellow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fellow. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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