colleague
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Their snobbery is juxtaposed with Carney’s friend and colleague Pepper’s unsettling bluntness and eyeball to eyeball stare.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
My colleague Dana Stevens says it may be her favorite Nolan movie to date.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
A colleague put it like this: "He can make the Treasury do what it doesn't want to do."
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2026
My colleague Thomas Grove and I spent weeks reporting this out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Peter,” she turned to her colleague with a trace of savagery, “what’s wrong here? What kind of robots are they using at Hyper Base?”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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Indeed, research from Cornell’s Pillemer and colleagues shows that while people who start a cutoff often feel a temporary sense of relief, they also experience significantly higher rates of chronic unhappiness and depression over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
He won the nomination after impressing his CEA colleagues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The presenter's friend and former Today co-host James Naughtie praised Stourton's "warm intelligence and wit", adding he was "one of the best colleagues".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
He was already looking forward to the end of his morning meeting so he and other football-loving colleagues could relive the match over another cup of coffee.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
I worked night and day to get it right, often with one of my colleagues, engineer Al Hamer, whom I collaborated with on several reports.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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Vocabulary lists containing colleague
Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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