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colleague

[kol-eeg] / ˈkɒl ig /


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In another exchange, Tsurui expressed frustration with a colleague who had offered what he thought was an overly optimistic timetable for installing new plate readers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The research began almost 20 years ago when Quitterer received brain tissue samples from a colleague at Ain Shams University Hospital in Cairo.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

A conservative colleague had warned him not to file the bill, Murphy told ProPublica, recalling the man’s words: “I can no longer protect you from who’s going to come after you.”

From Salon • Jun. 8, 2026

That fiery, no-nonsense tack sometimes works against him, said Steve Levy, a colleague of Tortorella’s during his time as an analyst for ESPN.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

The Soviet Union’s head of state and a close colleague of Stalin’s, Chairman Mikhail Kalinin, gave a speech in July 1945 addressed to the “Glorious Daughters of the Soviet People.”

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein




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