colleagues
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Warsh will succeed as chair not because he would be surrounded by yes men, but because he makes sound arguments that his colleagues find persuasive.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
In a new study using mice, Datta and his colleagues built the first detailed map showing how more than a thousand types of smell receptors are arranged inside the nose.
From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026
Likewise, Andy’s story starts when a magnate shutters her current job at a newspaper called the New York Vanguard, firing her and her colleagues for a $500-million tax write-off.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
Bobby, along with thousands of colleagues, carried his career out in a cardboard box.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
Like most of his biochemist colleagues, Miescher was also trying to classify the molecular components of cells by breaking cells apart and separating the chemicals that were released.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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