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confrere

[kon-frair] / ˈkɒn frɛər /






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“They have insinuated infamy on the integrity of my priestly life, having financed witnesses in a trial against a confrere, even being the owner of oil wells or tax havens.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

In the crowd were the actors Tony Danza, Tony Lo Bianco and Jelani Remy; Monty Alexander, a jazz pianist; and Deana Martin, an entertainer and daughter of the Sinatra confrere Dean Martin.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2019

In Owen, Casey has found a willing confrere.

From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2014

His Kansas confrere, Archie San Romani, music student at Kansas State Teachers College, won the race from Beccali by a foot, with Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke third.

From Time Magazine Archive

Professor Quartz and Baron Hammerstein, celebrated geologists from Germany, are talking with their illustrious confrere, Sir Robert Craxton, in the door.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray


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