coworker

Example Sentences

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How do you advocate for yourself without coming across as whiny or dragging a coworker into the conversation when they probably never intended to reveal their salary?

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

A coworker told me she invested about $6,000 and it’s already up to $12,000.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 20, 2026

Suddenly, the man who urges his charges to work as a team can’t forgive the coworker he once trusted the most.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

The worst gifts aren’t the ones that miss; they are the ones that reveal no attempt at all—generic, last-minute, indistinguishable from what you would give a coworker in an office Secret Santa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

“You knew people leaving here for college would sometimes get better jobs, but you had a good job, so it was fine,” said Mike Lacy, a close friend of Martinelli and a coworker at Kaiser.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times