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Who was Alexander Graham Bell's colleague during the invention of the telephone?

colleague

[kol-eeg] / ˈkɒl ig /


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Cartwright's colleague Alan Wright, added: "We want to engage people in nature and the best way to do it is do things next to where they live. This is a perfect example."

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Bankman-Fried ended up investing $500 million into Anthropic—five times his team’s initial recommendation, the colleague said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

Boor began investigating how cleaning agents and chemical disinfectants affect indoor environments during the COVID-19 pandemic with his colleague Nusrat Jung, a Purdue Assistant Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

After the incident, SNP minister Stephen Gethins stood up for Stevenson's character, describing her as "a really good colleague and fantastic local advocate".

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

One colleague of Pauling’s would later write, “If that were the structure of DNA, it would explode.”

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

In a landmark 2020 study, Hablitz, Nedergaard, and colleagues demonstrated that glymphatic function follows daily cycles even independently of sleep, establishing a direct link between circadian biology and the brain's waste-clearing system.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

In a letter to colleagues, he wrote that the world was “in peril” and that at Anthropic “we constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

He doesn’t care about politics, colleagues say, and isn’t registered with a political party.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Dobbin added that one senior official at the Home Office told colleagues that the conditions were the worst he had seen in 20 years.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

He began to limp noticeably, and several of his colleagues urged him to see a doctor, a dreaded experience that Bobby would only agree to if he were in enormous pain.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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