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colleague

[kol-eeg] / ˈkɒl ig /


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A Pasadena police officer shot and wounded a colleague in the shoulder inside the department’s parking garage last September during an incident the police chief described as “unsafe, out-of-policy horseplay.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Beijing cleaner Lin Meiqiong found her work a little easier the day she was paired with an unlikely new colleague -- a tall, wheeled robot with AI-powered tidying skills.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

On the flight deck were Captain Sumeet Sabharwal, a pilot with decades of experience, and his younger colleague, first officer Clive Kunder.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

With the Times, he plays out the “family” rationalization by getting weepy over a colleague who ventured pregnant into a war zone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 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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