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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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His colleague, quantitative research analyst David Chew, sees IWM at risk of a short squeeze in the near term.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

In late 2017, she made her name when a colleague told her about Project Maven, a secret Google contract with the US Department of Defense to build AI for drone targeting.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Policymakers didn’t make an urgent case for another rate increase at their upcoming October meeting, reports my colleague Matt Grossman, who covers economics for The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

True to his mission, Kenig got behind the steering wheel and raced towards the Gaza border in the early hours of October 7, 2023 after a colleague alerted him to what was happening.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

“We all knew in our gut that it was Dan,” a former colleague remembered.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Raman and a majority of her colleagues had voted the previous year for a package of increases that would culminate in a $30-per-hour minimum wage in summer 2028.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

Two months later, when her colleagues requested a 10-month extension, she voted no.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

To bat the angst away, she’ll often launch into work, writing emails and saving them as drafts so she doesn’t disturb her colleagues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

An important clue emerged in 2020, when Trachenko and his colleagues demonstrated that fundamental physical constants place a lower limit on the viscosity of liquids.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 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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