colleague
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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
My colleague Megan Leonhardt writes that while the CPI may have hit its peak in this latest reading, and gas prices are beginning to even out, that doesn’t mean things are easing anytime soon.
From Barron's ⢠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
BBC presenter Tony Livesey has stepped back from his 5 Live show following allegations against his former colleague David Sullivan.
From BBC ⢠Jun. 9, 2026
“A colleague of your father’s is going to Germany,” said Mother.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
Vocabulary lists containing colleague
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Vocabulary from "There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy," by Sherry Turkle
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