colleague
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But after she and a colleague were denied raises in 2020, the final setback in a string of frustrations, she started looking for a plan B.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
My colleague Adam Levine reports that adjusted earnings of 60 cents a share beat expectations for 58 cents, while revenue of $1.49 billion topped the consensus estimate of $1.47 billion.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Roberts, according to his friend and DOJ colleague Bruce Fein, led the way.
From Slate • May 7, 2026
Only last year did the truth come out, when Montaclair was due to chair a discussion on fake news and a colleague remembered hearing the rumours from Romania.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
“Perhaps my honorable colleague will allow me to try?”
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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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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