colleague

Example Sentences

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“Hi, honey, are you Cuban?” asked her colleague.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

He shared the idea with his colleague Mitchell Riegler, another doctoral student at the museum.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Americans Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch will make the voyage with their Canadian colleague Jeremy Hansen, and are now preparing to take off as soon as Wednesday.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

Hughes and his colleague Chris Cooper-Hayes, who has a professional background in landscaping, have founded Eterrna, a venture they hope could become the very first to offer human composting in the UK.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

According to his long-time colleague James Chadwick, discoverer of the neutron, he wasn’t even particularly clever at experimentation.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson